[tex-live] antt.tpm occurring in collection-langpolish and -fontsextra

[Karl Berry]

Hi Norbert,

    If the same Package-tpm is
    required from different collections, then it comes into both debian
    packages, which gives bad problems.

This seems like a fundamental problem with the Debian scripts.  I see
nothing wrong, in principle, with a package being in several
collections.  It can even be useful, as it is in this case -- GUST users
may not want all of fontsextra, while they do definitely want antt.  My
perltex stuff also seemed "logical" to me.  I can easily imagine that
other language collections would do the same thing.  I gave in on my
perltex stuff since it wasn't a big deal, but I didn't see anything
wrong (in principle) with the cross-dependencies in that case, either.

I don't have any brilliant ideas about how to solve the problem for
Debian(*), but it seems wrong to me to force TL to have this
restriction.  Unless Staszek is happy to just remove it from one or the
other to appease this ...

Best,
Karl

(*) Non-brilliant idea #1: make such common packages be their own Debian
package, so that both the others can depend on it.

Non-brilliant idea #2: arbitrarily choose debpkg (collection) X where
antt will really reside, then make debpkg Y depend on debpkg X.  Sure,
you get extra stuff along with it, but so what, disks are big.

Non-brilliant idea #3: duplicate such common packages in both debpkg's.