Re: dpkg can't handle multiple replaces (was: Freezing Bo)
Christian Hudon <chudon@ee.mcgill.ca> writes:
> It's also very hard to upgrade to tetex using dselect... Partly because of
> this missing feature (from /usr/doc/dpkg/WISHLIST):
>
> * understand Replaces in dselect
>
> Maybe it might be a good idea to delay tetex until 1.4?
Maybe so, this is going to generate a *bunch* of bad publicity.
I know I had quite a bit of trouble installing debian's tetex on a
machine yesterday, and I was expecting the trouble. Among other
things the packages were upset that /etc/texmf and /usr/lib/texmf were
left around because the older TeX packages hadn't been removed
properly. We need to fix this. I think this should be high on the
dpkg repair list.
--
Rob
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