Bug#200264: tetex-bin upgrade fails: conflict with texdoctk

[Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>]

From: Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>
Subject: Bug#200264: tetex-bin upgrade fails: conflict with texdoctk
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 12:50:39 +0200

> > A possible problem is; tetex-bin provides only texdoctk binary (or
> > script?) and texdocrc etc. are provided by tetex-extra so it is not
> > precise that tetex-bin provide, replace and conflict with texdoctk.
> > 
> Well, depends on... But at least tetex-bin should conflict, to make
> sure, that the separate package texdoctk is removed, during upgrading
> of tetex-bin.

Yes, so tetex-bin Conflicts with texdoctk.

> > In fact, it makes tetex-extra uninstallable because it provides
> > texdoctk at present.

And tetex-extra Provides texdoctk (at least at present).
Then both tetex-bin and tetex-extra can be installed?

> We can have two packages installed, which provides the same (at least
> this is in woody the case).

This is different from the above situation, isn't this?

I suspect even now it is a fairy difficult to set reasonable
dependency with texdoctk.

Thanks,			2003-7-18(Fri)

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