Description of problem: "Requires: jadetext tetex-dvips" pulls in over 100MB of additional stuff: all the tetex packages, etc... It's quite a mouthful. There's already an existing docbook-utils-pdf subpackage that contains the "db2pdf" and "docbook2pdf" wrappers. So, there's already an established precedent here. How about moving the "docbook2tex", "docbook2texti" and "docbook2dvi" wrappers to a new docbook-utils-tetex subpackage, together with the jadetex and tetex-dvips, and remove all the requirement to install over 100MB of tetex packags, for basic docbook stuff, even if you never use it?
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It has nothing to do with test package, therefore changing this suggested future-feature to devel version.
Well, completely forgot to look into that bugzilla, sorry for long time without response. Time to make review now. Requires: jedetex tetex-dvips is only for docbook-utils-pdf , docbook-utils main-package requires openjade. Openjade/OpenSP requirements are necessary for all backends except texi and man. I guess this should be kept. I don't see any TeX requirements for main package, but maybe I'm blind - they are only for pdf subpackage and are needed for those backends. Feel free to add comments if I missed something, but closing that bugzilla NOTABUG as I don't see any reason to split the packages once more time(jadetex/dvips utilities are already all in pdf subpackage). Btw. docbook2dvi requires jadetex, but docbook2tex and docbook2texi not, they need openjade/nsgmls/sgmlspl. Now I'm going to split TeX part of xmlto, so you will have other cheap TeX free converting solution in Fedora anyway(xml-base).