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: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:40:34 -0500
> Julian Gilbey wrote:
>
> >On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 04:32:09PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> >
> >>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 ;-)
Reasonable and as you said "them" there are many
packages to be dropped.
Perhaps all the following are candidates;
texidoc, bibtex, texpsfnt, mfbasfnt, xdvik, dvipsk, mfnfss, latex,
babel, texlib, mflib, textfm, kpathsea, latex2e-doc, (ltxgraph?
I am not sure about this one)
> I see, this explains it. Keeping my package name as "babel" would be
> much better for me, and I'm glad that it sounds like it will turn out to
> be practical to do so.
I had gotten a feeling as Julian from the begining and
I only tried to ask you, Adam, if it was good or bad to
rename your package.
So please feel free to answer it was bad to rename the package.
As you can guess easily, I'm not native English speaker
so it is very difficult to express my feeling/thought or
nuance(?) in English ;)
Best regards, 2002/11/22
--
Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.
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