Bug#80275: libkpathsea3: tex-related packages are confused about libkpathsea3 vs. tetex-lib

["Adam M. Costello" <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>]

Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp> wrote:

> > Package: libkpathsea3
> > Version: N/A
> 
> Why N/A ?

Because it's not installed.

> Package: libkpathsea3
> Version: 1.0.7+20000807-7
> Provides: tetex-lib

Hmmm, maybe this version appeared on ftp.ca.debian.org very recently,
or maybe I was remembering that a slightly older version that didn't
provide tetex-lib and assuming that was still the problem.

In any case, deselect absolutely refuses to install libkpathsea3 unless
I agree to remove xdvik-ja, which I don't want to do, and apt-get
concurs:

# apt-get -s install libkpathsea3
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  catdvi dvipdfm tetex-bin vflib3 
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  tetex-lib xdvik-ja 
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libkpathsea3 
4 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 2 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Inst tetex-bin [shellutils on hurd] []
Inst dvipdfm [shellutils on hurd] []
Inst vflib3 [shellutils on hurd] []
Remv xdvik-ja []
Inst catdvi [shellutils on hurd] []
Remv tetex-lib [jtex-bin dvi2ps ]
Inst libkpathsea3 [shellutils on hurd]
Conf tetex-bin
Conf dvipdfm
Conf vflib3
Conf catdvi
Conf libkpathsea3

I don't understand this, because libkpathsea3 appears to satisfy
xdvik-ja's dependency on tetex-lib (>= 1.0.6-3).  Any ideas?  Is this as
a bug in xdvik-ja?

Thanks,
AMC