Re: Recent tex-common upgrade breaks LaTeX
On So, 17 Aug 2008, Erik Mouw wrote:
> and hence remove any TeX support. If you then install texlive-base-bin
> from bpo, you can't install texlive-latex-base because that is not yet
> backported. I guess the best solution is to backport at least the
I disagree, the guidelines from bpo say that if a package can be
installed from testing using pinning then it should not be backported. I
have done the backport only of telxive-bin, since the other texlive
packages can and should be taken from testing.
> texlive LaTeX parts as the alternative would be to remove texlive from
That would be a bad move.
If you want to stay with texlive 2005 (or tetex) why did you install the
tex-common from bpo?
Best wishes
Norbert
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