Re: New texlive packages may be required for building from source

[Mike Miller]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 12:14:45 -0700, Rik wrote:
> Just a heads up, after Mike updated the build system to use a newer version
> of texinfo.tex from gnulib the documentation build broke.  It turned out
> that on Ubuntu 12.04 I needed to add the extra package
> texlive-latex-recommended.  On newer versions of Ubuntu the correct package
> is texlive-fonts-recommended.

Thanks for noticing that and reporting the right packages needed. This
had been mentioned on Debian bug #790626 [1] but it wasn't clear to me
what change required that dependency.

Knowing this was needed I might not have pushed this on stable. Not
being able to build with Texinfo 6 is bad, but so is not being able to
build because of dependency creep. What do you think, is this new
build-dependency an acceptable change for 4.0.1? Need to be mentioned
in NEWS? Or since the packages are called "recommended" users should
have them already? I didn't install anything new, so I must have
already had the right one.

[1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=790626#62

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mike