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Bug#62541: 62541: Is it really required to check for old tex packages still?



Previously Christoph Martin wrote:
> I don't know if this is fixed now in dpkg. If I remember right, dpkg
> was not able to provide, conflict AND replace more than one package
> AND remove them on installation of the replacing package. So we had to
> find a way to check which packages the user had to remove by hand
> before we could install the tetex packages.

This sounds exactly like something BenC fixed. However you can't depend
on people having a dpkg recent enough for at least the next two releases.

Wichert.

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