texlive has symlinks between subpkgs without dependency relationships

[meator]

Is this a new report?

Yes

System Info

Void 6.1.21_1 x86_64 GenuineIntel uptodate rFFFFFFF

Package(s) Affected

texlive-20210325_5, texlive-Xdvi-20210325_5

Does a report exist for this bug with the project's home (upstream) and/or another distro?

No response

Expected behaviour

I have texlive installed but I don't have texlive-Xdvi installed (because it isn't a dependency of texlive). texlive provides the /usr/bin/extractbb program which is actually a symlink to /usr/bin/xdvipdfmx. I expect extractbb to work.

Actual behaviour

/usr/bin/extractbb is a broken symlink because /usr/bin/xdvipdfmx doesn't exist because texlive-Xdvi isn't installed.

Normally I would have added texlive-Xdvi as a dependency of texlive myself but because texlive-Xdvi is a subpackage of texlive, the "correct" solution would (I think) be to merge these two packages and remove texlive-Xdvi which could be complex.

Steps to reproduce

1. xbps-install -S texlive
   

2. extractbb
   

[classabbyamp]

cc @fosslinux

[fosslinux]

/usr/bin/extractbb should be vmoved into texlive-Xdvi. I'll do this in my upcoming TeXLive 2023 PR.

[classabbyamp]

there are a few other symlinks to xdvipdfmx that should probably be vmoved differently too:

texlive-20210325_5       /usr/bin/ebb -> /usr/bin/xdvipdfmx
texlive-20210325_5       /usr/bin/extractbb -> /usr/bin/xdvipdfmx
texlive-Xdvi-20210325_5  /usr/bin/xdvipdfmx
texlive-dvi-20210325_5   /usr/bin/dvipdfm -> /usr/bin/xdvipdfmx
texlive-dvi-20210325_5   /usr/bin/dvipdfmx -> /usr/bin/xdvipdfmx

[meator]

I found another one.

texlive-20210325_5          /usr/bin/epstopdf -> ../share/texmf-dist/scripts/epstopdf/epstopdf.pl

/usr/share/texmf-dist/scripts/epstopdf/epstopdf.pl is in texlive-ConTeXt.

[dkwo]

I will try to address this in #61026 but is there a systematic way to lint for this?

[leahneukirchen]

xdvipdfmx should go to the core package, it's not related to Xdvi (except it sounds like it).