Bug#150822: please install later version of dvipdfm
From: Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>
Subject: Bug#150822: please install later version of dvipdfm
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 08:27:04 +0900
> I've just noticed why dpkg wants to configure tetex-base before
> xlibs, after looking at it closer.
> tetex-base doesn't depend on tetex-bin or xlibs.
> tetex-base tries to execute code that is extracted (but not yet
> configured) from tetex-bin, which in turn does not yet work
> because xlibs is not yet configured.
>
> This bug should probably be fixed (like, not calling initex
> from tetex-base postinst, and calling it in tetex-bin postinst ?)
> sometime, but maybe not now.
Well, how to do with this problem? It seems that
we should fix tetex-base in some way in order that
dvipdfm could be built in alpha.
tetex-bin depends already on tetex-base so it is impossible
for tetex-base to depend on tetex-bin, I think.
And it is sometimes necessary that tetex-base should call
initex to generate *.fmt when files in tetex-base are
upgraded but the binary initex itself isn't upgraded.
Then, I think, it might be the only possible way that
tetex-base pre-depends on xlibs and this needs to be
reported to debian-devel before doing this really.
Is there any problem?
Best regards, 2002/8/22
--
Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.
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