Bug#62541: 62541: Is it really required to check for old tex packages still?
On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 04:51:53PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman 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.
Why wouldn't Pre-Depends: work?
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