Comment 9 for bug 296320

I agree with Holger. glossaries should be part of the "texlive-latex-extra" packet. I guess glossaries is a kind of "advanced" latex and belongs more to extra than base. It also would be good to have the old version (glossary) and the new (glossaries) in one package.

glossaries depends on the latex package xfor http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xfor/ which is not included in my texlive-latex-extra (2007.dfsg.8-1ubuntu1) or base (2007-dfsg.1-5) installation. It would make sense to also include xfor in texlive-latex-extra.