On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 07:12:29AM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 08:39:10PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > xpdf -- xpdf, pdftopbm (requires xlibs, freetype, t1 etc) > > xpdf-utils -- pdftops, pdfinfo, pdfimages, pdftotext (libpaperg only) > > > > > > Second question: what's the best way to create the packages such > > that the binaries don't go missing on existing installations? > > Keep an xpdf meta-package depending on two new ones? Or > > just live with it? > > If you want that, while allowing either package to be installed > independently, you'll have to rename xpdf above to xpdf-reader or some such, > and make xpdf a metapackage that depends on the other two. > > I wouldn't worry too much about it, except for package dependencies. As > long as there are no programs in Debian which Depend on xpdf that will break > unexpectedly if the utils go away, a human can resolve the situation easily. > Just mention pdftops, pdfinfo, etc. in the extended description so that they > can easily be found. Please don't break the users systems! Please use a metapackage or (better) some good Depends, Replaces, ... Tags. Maybe ask on debian-mantor@lists.d.o Gruss Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debsupport.de PGP: finger grisu@db.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux >| X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; I) Wie sollst Du auch verstehen können? -- Stefan Scholl in dasr
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