Re: Conflicts does not remove old package

[Hilmar Preuße <hille42@web.de>]

Am 08.01.2021 um 10:49 teilte Hilmar Preuße mit:

Hi,

> When looking at the package texlive-base it already declares a
>
> Conflicts: (...) texlive-plain-generic (<< 2020.20200417).
>
> Hence I'd expect that old texlive-plain-generic is removed before the 
> new texlive-base is installed. What are we doing wrong here?
I noticed that lintian complains: 
https://lintian.debian.org/sources/texlive-base/2020.20200925-1.html

I conflicts-with-version texlive-latex-recommended (<< 2020.20200417)
I conflicts-with-version texlive-latex-recommended-doc (<< 020.20200417)
I conflicts-with-version texlive-luatex (<< 2020.20200417)
I conflicts-with-version texlive-metapost (<< 2020.20200417)
I conflicts-with-version texlive-metapost-doc (<< 2020.20200417)
I conflicts-with-version texlive-music (<< 2020.20200417)
I conflicts-with-version texlive-pictures (<< 2020.20200417)
I conflicts-with-version texlive-pictures-doc (<< 2020.20200417)
I conflicts-with-version texlive-plain-generic (<< 2020.20200417)
I conflicts-with-version texlive-pstricks (<< 2020.20200417)
I conflicts-with-version texlive-pstricks-doc (<< 2020.20200417)
I conflicts-with-version texlive-publishers (<< 2020.20200417)
I conflicts-with-version texlive-publishers-doc (<< 2020.20200417)
I conflicts-with-version texlive-science (<< 2020.20200417)
I conflicts-with-version texlive-science-doc (<< 2020.20200417)
I conflicts-with-version texlive-xetex (<< 2020.20200417)

I guess we have to use rather "Breaks" here. Nevertheless I'd expect 
that the old package is removed before the new one is installed.

Hilmar
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