Re: Bug#412006: dvidvi: Please Replace texlive-extra-utils (<< 2005.dfsg.2-12)
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 02:51:46PM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
> On upgrading texlive in Sid, which no longer provides a dvidvi binary
> and now Recommends the dvidvi package instead, I got the following:
> Selecting previously deselected package dvidvi.
> Unpacking dvidvi (from .../dvidvi_1.0-8etch1_i386.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dvidvi_1.0-8etch1_i386.deb (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/dvidvi', which is also in package texlive-extra-utils
> This happens because at the time dvidvi was unpacked, the older version
> of texlive-extra-utils was still installed. This is the companion bug
> to #411537.
> The issue could be worked around if dvidvi had a line like
> Replaces: texlive-extra-utils (<< 2005.dfsg.2-12)
> in its control file.
Yes, that's right. I uploaded version 1.0-8etch2 with that fix. Please
consider for unblocking.
> If this fix could be targeted for etch-proposed-updates (e.g. version
> number 1.0-8etch2) and if that version of dvidvi, and version
> 2005.dfsg.2-12 of texlive-bin, make it into Etch, then it will be
> possible to upgrade texlive-extra-utils from earlier versions of Sid
> or Etch with no troubles.
I uploaded to unstable, no reason to use testing-proposed-updates.
> (Severity "important" rather than RC, since this issue won't affect
> people upgrading to Etch or Sid from Sarge where there are no texlive
> packages. X-Debbug-CC'ed to release and tex-maint teams.)
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Lionel
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