> A Pre-Depends is also not encouraged by the policy. However it seems > this might give a smoother upgrade, and: You can't have tetex-base Pre-Depend on arabtex, for a variety of reasons. Having arabtex Pre-Depend on tetex-base would only make the problem worse, since you want arabtex upgraded first anyway. > I'm Cc:-ing the arabtex maintainer, perhaps he has some comments. Are there no other TeX packages that have this problem?