Re: Bug#231235: arabtex font installation is broken

[Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr>]

Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> wrote:

> Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> wrote:
>
>>   1. The dependency on tetex-bin should be (>= 2).
>
> Of course, this is because of the new updmap interface... but as I
> mentioned in the "arabtex and tetex 2" subthread and forgot while
> writing the previous message, this will probably break since tetex-bin
> would not want to be upgraded before arabtex because of its Conflicts
> with arabtex (<< earlier-version).
>

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.).

> If the last version of arabtex works with tetex 1 _and_ tetex 2, the
> dependency can be let as "tetex-bin" only, and the upgrade should work.

This would also be correct, but more difficult to achieve.

> Otherwise, you have a problem. This needs work.

Not with the aforementioned proposal. Sorry.

-- 
Florent