Re: dvipdfm

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 11:34:48AM -0500, Camm Maguire wrote:
> Greetings!  I just submitted a dvipdfm package, with a diversion of
> the dvipdfm.defs file in the tetex latex tree, when I found in the
> packaging manual that I should consult with you first!  Sorry for the
> oversight -- this is my first 'diversion'.  So is this OK?  It really
> doesn't seem appropriate to use an alternative, as tetex has no binary
> of dvipdf?, and dvipdfm needs this file to work properly.

Is the dvipdfm.defs file in the tetex packages adequate?  If it's not
needed by any of the tetex binaries, perhaps the tetex packages should
just remove the file, and your package should say:

Depends: tetex-base (>= 1.0.7+whatever-foo)
Replaces: tetex-base (<< 1.0.7+whatever-foo)

where 1.0.7+whatever-foo is the version which no longer has the .defs
file.

   Julian

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