texlive-latex-base adds texdoctk

[Timo Aaltonen]

When texlive-latex-base is installed in ubuntu 18.04 with it dependencies it adds program texdoctk which depends perl-tk which is not installed. Also texdoctk.desktop is made. This has been discussed in:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=622403
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=836441

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[Timo Aaltonen (taalton)]

While texdoctk heavily needs latex documents that are not all installed with texlive-base, should it be moved to come with texlive-full as a last resort? Also texdoctk needs perl-tk which is not installed with texlive-base. Texdoctk.desktop icon is just ugly and needs to be manually removed from applications directory.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.