Bug#225004: tetex-extra: Type1 fonts should be in a separate package
Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> schrieb:
> Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
>
>> 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...
>
> It is possible that someone installed one of the old packages on potato
> or slink for instance, did not install any tetex-* package, upgraded to
> potato, woody and sarge normally, step by step, and still has this old
> package... All that is required for this to be possible is that he
> didn't install any package that Conflicts or Replaces the old package...
It is not possible, as long as the new tetex had the correct
relationships as outlined in policy 7.5.2. That is, Conflicts, Replaces
and Provides for the respective package.
Unfortunately this is not the case for all of them, AFAIS. At least
bibtex is not Provided by any tetex package.
Still I think we need not take care for this with the
tetex-extra-type1fonts package. Problems can only occur if one of these
packages contained type1 fonts. This might be the case for texpsfnt,
cstexfonts, pxfonts, txfonts, mfpic, cspsfonts. These we should probably
keep in the Conflicts, just to be sure (unless we find old copies of
these packages). Or we ask Adrian whether he remembers... The CVS
doesn't help, most of them were already in there in the first version
archived.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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