When you have an idea about it, the separation of the independent build from the binary has not worked out. These dependencies now happen to be required for every platform, but should just be required for the arch-independent builds: Build-Depends-Indep: texlive-latex-base, texlive-latex-recommended, texlive-science, texlive-latex-extra, texlive-humanities Many thanks for any suggestion The fix for #620999 is not right. I had disabled the threading on the kfreebsd platforms to work around the compilation problem with threading. Steffen