install xmlto should not install > 1GB of packages

Bug #1095070 reported by SoloTurn
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
xmlto (Debian)
Won't Fix
Unknown
xmlto (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

installing xmlto should depend on
    docbook-xml-4.5, docbook-xsl-1.77.1, and libxslt-1.1.28
and others optional

but it depends on:
$ sudo wajig install xmlto
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  dblatex docbook-xsl latex-beamer latex-xcolor libgraphite3 libptexenc1 libruby1.9.1 libxml2-utils libyaml-0-2 lmodern luatex pgf preview-latex-style
  prosper ps2eps ruby ruby1.9.1 tex-common tex-gyre texlive texlive-base texlive-bibtex-extra texlive-binaries texlive-common texlive-doc-base
  texlive-extra-utils texlive-font-utils texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-fonts-recommended-doc texlive-generic-recommended texlive-latex-base
  texlive-latex-base-doc texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-extra-doc texlive-latex-recommended texlive-latex-recommended-doc texlive-luatex
  texlive-math-extra texlive-pictures texlive-pictures-doc texlive-pstricks texlive-pstricks-doc tipa ttf-marvosym xsltproc
Suggested packages:
  docbook graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat imagemagick latex-cjk-all opensp texlive-lang-cyrillic texlive-xetex transfig docbook-xsl-doc-html
  docbook-xsl-doc-pdf docbook-xsl-doc-text docbook-xsl-doc libsaxon-java libxalan2-java libxslthl-java docbook-xsl-saxon fop xalan dbtoepub ri
  ruby-dev ruby1.9.1-examples ri1.9.1 graphviz ruby1.9.1-dev ruby-switch texlive-doc-en perl-tk purifyeps chktex latexmk dvipng xindy dvidvi
  fragmaster lacheck latexdiff psutils t1utils libfile-which-perl dot2tex w3m lynx-cur links xmltex
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  dblatex docbook-xsl latex-beamer latex-xcolor libgraphite3 libptexenc1 libruby1.9.1 libxml2-utils libyaml-0-2 lmodern luatex pgf preview-latex-style
  prosper ps2eps ruby ruby1.9.1 tex-common tex-gyre texlive texlive-base texlive-bibtex-extra texlive-binaries texlive-common texlive-doc-base
  texlive-extra-utils texlive-font-utils texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-fonts-recommended-doc texlive-generic-recommended texlive-latex-base
  texlive-latex-base-doc texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-extra-doc texlive-latex-recommended texlive-latex-recommended-doc texlive-luatex
  texlive-math-extra texlive-pictures texlive-pictures-doc texlive-pstricks texlive-pstricks-doc tipa ttf-marvosym xmlto xsltproc
0 upgraded, 46 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: xmlto (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-21.32-generic 3.5.7.1
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-21-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu9
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jan 1 17:25:02 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-12-09 (23 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release i386 (20121017.2)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xmlto
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

Revision history for this message
Daniel Leidert (dleidert-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

dblatex, fop and other packages are recommended for installation and you have configured your system to install those packages automatically. These toolchains are recommended to make almost all functions of xmlto available to users. If you only need docbook, libxml|xslt maybe you don't need xmlto.

Changed in xmlto (Debian):
status: Unknown → Won't Fix
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in xmlto (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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