Re: Bug#231235: arabtex font installation is broken
Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> schrieb:
> Sorry, I spread confusion when writing this paragraph. Unpacking and
> configuring order are not necessarily the same. What I wrote in
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-tetex-maint/2004/debian-tetex-maint-200402/msg00006.html
> was correct. This suggested combination was tested and explained.
>
> I think that the simplest correct thing to do is:
>
> tetex-base -> Conflicts: arabtex (<< 3.10-8)
> arabtex -> Depends: tetex-bin (>= 2), tetex-base (>= 2)
>
> [and other dependencies unrelated to the problem at hand, like arabtex
> depending on tetex-extra as Frank pointed out, IIRC]
>
> The Conflicts makes arabtex be unpacked before tetex, which avoids the
> directory/link clash, and the Depends makes tetex-bin and tetex-base be
> configured before arabtex, which allows the recent arabtex to use the
> updmap framework in tetex 2 (update-updmap, etc.).
I agree, we don't have a circulus vituosus.
Bye, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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