Package: texinfo Version: 5.2.0.dfsg.1-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I just tried to do "man texi2dvi", and was quite puzzled by the results, until I realized that it was probably what happens when you try to generate a manpage for texi2dvi using help2man without having a working "tex" binary installed.
Looking at the code of texi2dvi and at the output of "apt-cache showsrc texi2dvi", I'm pretty sure that's exactly what happened here, and I can see several options for you: 1. Build-Depend on texlive-binaries 2. Fix "texi2dvi --help" to still print the usage information even if it can't find a tex binary; it might be best if the warning was also included, though, since that's a useful thing to have in the manpage. 3. Build the manpage as part of your "new upstream tarball" procedure; you already must have one of these because of the manual, so you might be able to work this into your script for that? I think the best choice is probably 2, though 1 is obviously the easiest. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages texinfo depends on: ii libc6 2.18-4 ii libintl-perl 1.23-1 ii libtext-unidecode-perl 0.04-2 ii libxml-libxml-perl 2.0108+dfsg-1 texinfo recommends no packages. Versions of packages texinfo suggests: ii texinfo-doc-nonfree 5.2.0-1 ii texlive-base 2013.20140314-1 ii texlive-generic-recommended 2013.20140314-1 ii texlive-latex-base 2013.20140314-1 -- no debconf information -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
