Bug#557086: texlive-base: change version for the depence on luatex to (>=0.44)
Cédric Boutillier <cedric.boutillier@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 02:11:06PM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote:
>> On Do, 19 Nov 2009, Cédric Boutillier wrote:
>> > When upgrading from texlive2007 to texlive2009, dpkg complains that
>> > texlive-base 2009-1 tries to overwrite /urs/bin/dviluatex, that is provided
>> > by luatex 0.40.6-1+b1 in sid at the moment.
>>
>> Thanks, fixed in the svn repository. Next release will contain the fix.
>
> Great! Thank you for your work.
>
>> And thanks for testing. May I ask how the upgrade other then that did
>> work out?
>
> The upgrade was not particularly smooth. Some packages did not want to
> configure from the first time, complaining that tex-common, texlive-common
> and texlive-binaries were not installed completely. But after two or
> three runs with aptitude, the installation was complete.
You don't have logs available, do you?
> I would help testing the upgrade process if needed, from a fresh
> bootstraped sid. But installing a huge number of packages from
> experimental without pulling 'all' experimental packages was always a
> bit tricky for me.
I see. However, we already *have* tested the upgrade from a fresh sid,
albeit with nothing on it except the old TeXLive. I guess some related
packages are needed to trigger the problems.
> Is it possible to get these texlive2009 packages from
> another source, for which I could write a simple pinning rule?
http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ tl2009/
but there are only amd64 binaries.
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Debian Developer (TeXLive)
VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg
B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg
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