Re: dvipdfm

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

On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 07:11:26PM -0500, Camm Maguire wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> That's fine with me, of course.  Is this preferred to a diversion?  If
> you want to go this route, please let me know what the first
> tetex-base version without the dvipdfm.defs file is.

It would probably be a good idea to file this as a bug against the
tetex-base package so it doesn't get forgotten.

   Julian

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