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texlive-acronyms is missing dependencies

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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail <at> nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>
Cc: daniel.meissner-i4k <at> rub.de, Josselin Poiret <dev <at> jpoiret.xyz>,
 65889 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#65889: texlive-acronyms is missing dependencies
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2023 18:53:27 +0200

Hello,

Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Nicolas Goaziou <mail <at> nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:
>
>> We use dependencies specified in TeX Live itself (as in "texlive.tlpdb"
>> file), for sanity reasons. There are 4000+ packages; I think it is not
>> reasonable to grep through their output to find the unspecified
>> dependencies. It will also be terrible when using some updater, now this
>> tool can remove propagated inputs.
>
> Couldn't we report those missing dependencies upstream then?

That's a good idea, indeed. I'm not volunteering to do it, though :)

Regards,
-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

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