Bug#169799: tetex-base: Please remove "babel" from Conflicts
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 04:32:09PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> 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.
The last Debian release to contain all of these little packages was
Debian 1.2 (1996/1997). I think we can just drop them from the
Conflicts and Replaces lists for sarge; anyone who's still got the old
babel package installed has much larger problems if they try to
upgrade directly to unstable/sarge ;-)
Julian
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