Bug#100449: debian/control in tetex-bin
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 01:11:43AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote:
>
> > Package: tetex-bin
> > Version: 1.0.7+20001218
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> > In debian/control, we have
> >
> > Replaces: tetex-base
> >
> > and
> >
> > Description: You need at least tetex-base with it.
> >
> > Sounds contradictory.
>
> This is not contradictory:
> "Replaces:" is something technically that is needed to tell dpkg that
> tetex-bin includes files that were in tetex-base before (we can perhaps
> version it).
>From the point of view of a luser, this is *very* confusing. Replaces: means
the package provides the files of previous tetex-base. And then Description:
says you need to install those files. As a luser what am I supposed to do ? I
should install tetex-base since Description says me so. But the same tetex-base
is replaced by the package I just install. I guess you understand me, don't you
?
Could this be clarified in the doc ? Even after you message, I don't know if I
should install the package or not ...
--
Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT
Eric.VanBuggenhaut@AdValvas.be
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