Bug#169799: tetex-base: Please remove "babel" from Conflicts
From: Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@mit.edu>
Subject: Bug#169799: tetex-base: Please remove "babel" from Conflicts
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 14:58:39 -0500
> Greetings,
Hi,
> There is no package "babel" in Debian, virtual or otherwise. But I'd
> like for there to be, so I filed the ITP in bug 149148 (and am nearly
> finished with the packaging).
>
> Unfortunately, it's uninstallable on systems with tetex-base, because of
> a conflict with "babel". Was this an old legacy package? What's the
> reason for this conflict?
As I'm a new maintainer of tetex so I'm not so sure but
I guess TeX in Debian was once splitted into several
components and one of them was called babel.
(Babel is very famous TeX componet which supports multilingual
typesettings as far as I know)
So we need to set conflict with old such componets.
> I notice there's an "openbabel", but this has nothing to do with my
> babel (nor does it provide a virtual "babel"), and my babel has
> next-to-nothing to do with TeX. Therefore, please remove babel from the
> list of Conflicts.
It is impossible for you to rename your babel as babel-suite
or something else ?
Best regards, 2002/11/21
--
Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.
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