Bug#285724: tetex-bin: latex vanishes during upgrade from stable to testing
Ania Mitros <paul+aniabug@byz.org> wrote:
> Of the packages you listed in your email, the following match:
> libkpathsea3 install
> tetex-base install
> latex2html install
> texinfo install
> tetex-extra install
> tetex-base install
> libkpathsea3 install
> tetex-bin install
These are all known to upgrade together without problems.
> I don't have a log of the upgrade in any rigorous form, but I did note
> down a few things for myself.
> http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/ania/upgrade_to_testing.txt
Nothing suspicious.
> This is a 3+ year old computer and until now has always run 'stable', so
> I'm pretty sure it started out with potato once upon a time.
So there might be a potato package involved. Hm. Still we should try
this:
Please install grep-dctrl. Then add the lines into your sources.list
that you had before the upgrade. That is, if you used to have
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib
and have changed this to
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian sarge main contrib
then please, for a while, add back the first line, so that you have
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian sarge main contrib
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib
Do this for every line you have changed, and if possible also restore
lines you have removed, e.g. to backport repositories.
This will not change apt's behavior - it will always take the more
recent packages - but it will put back the old packages into the
available list. Do "dselect update" and then
grep-available -s Package -F Conflicts tetex
and tell us whether any packages show up that were not displayed on my
system, as in the last mail I sent.
After this, you can remove the old cruft again from your sources.list.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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