Re: Strange Behavior with teTeX Packages
>>>>> "f" == Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> writes:
f> You must have installed tetex-doc (and probably -base and -extra) from
f> stable/proposed-updates. But this upload has been rejected, and
f> therefore the version is no longer available anywhere (at least I think
f> so, if it's still in proposed-updates, you probably have removed that
f> from your sources.list).
f> Consequently apt thinks that you have previously installed
f> tetex-{base,extra,doc} via "apt-get -t sarge-backports install ..." and
f> wants to upgrade them.
Ah, now I understand the mechanism behind it...
Btw.: Why has this version been rejected? (I've seen it for quite a
long time...)
f> To solve this, downgrade your tetex-packages to 2.0.2c-8 (the
f> differences are minor and only interesting if you don't have write
f> access to /usr/local, e.g. because it is mounted via nfs from a server
f> on which you cannot write.
f> If you in fact *do* use LaTeX or any other TeX system for documents that
f> you write yourself, I strongly suggest that you use the backports -
f> 2.0.2 is three years old and really outdated, both in terms of (La)TeX
f> packages and of the pdfTeX version.
OK, I think I'll do so, but...
>>>>> "F" == Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> writes:
F> Right, but the current version suffers from bug #357429...
... I'll wait for the bugfix. ;-)
Thanks, HP.
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