#1150747 tk-brief: recommends xpdf-reader which is not in unstable

#1150747#5
Date:
2026-10-13 07:22:40 UTC
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Dear maintainer(s),

I noticed that package tk-brief recommends xpdf-reader, which is
not available in unstable.

I've checked the source of tk-brief (file /usr/bin/tk-brief) and I don't
see it trying to use any binary named xpdf-reader itself, but tries to
use "xdg-open" I guess that with a PDF file.

I think that a good recommends might be "xpdf | pdf-viewer" (so, a
basic concrete package to open PDFs and the virtual package pdf-viewer
for people who already have a favourite PDF viewer).

Thank you for your time,

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and
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