Bug#225004: tetex-extra: Type1 fonts should be in a separate package
On 11.02.04 Florent Rougon (f.rougon@free.fr) wrote:
Hi,
> > I would suggest we simply take the freedom to ignore these for
> > the fonts packages. Anybody upgrading from pre-woody to sarge or
> > later will have harder problems than just this.
>
> Officially, upgrades from pre-woody to sarge are not supported, so
> this should be OK... except if the user is upgrading from woody
> proper but still has one of the old packages installed (potato
> packages that are not in woody are *not* automatically removed when
> you upgrade to woody). In this case, the Conflicts precisely
> ensures the package will be removed...
>
So, when got teTeX introduced into Debian? It was contained in
potato, perhaps even in slink.
* New upstream Release (teTeX 0.9-980318)
-- Christoph Martin <christoph.martin@uni-mainz.de> Sun, 22 Mar 1998 17:57:23
So I guess, we can kick out all these old Conflicts, Replaces ect.
related to tetex-bin (like bibtex, mflib) etc. If anybody has
upgraded his TeX since then he has teTeX now and if not, well out of
luck...
H.
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