Bug#186541: tetex-bin: refuses to dist-upgrade

[Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>]

Package: tetex-bin
Version: 2.0.2-2
Severity: important

[CCing w3c-libwww maintainer, as this concerns him.]

Packages need to be dist-upgradable, or people coming from woody will be
very unhappy.

It looks like tetex-bin previously had this dependency:

  libwww0 (>= 5.4.0) | libwww-ssl0 (>= 5.4.0)

But now, as of 2.0.2-2, it has:

  libwww-ssl0 (>= 5.4.0)

This renders tetex-bin un-upgradeable with apt for people who have
libwww0 installed.  This is because, while libwww-ssl0 does the correct
thing and Conflicts/Replaces/Provides libwww0, dpkg and apt are not
cognizant of "versioned Provides".  The versioning in your declared
dependency renders libwww-ssl0's Provides meaningless to the packaging
system.

I recommend restoring the previous dependency declaration.  It looks
like libwww0 shlibs file, at least, is correct so perhaps a simple
recompile is all that is needed.

Please let me know if I can provide more information or more in the way
of an explanation.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: powerpc
Kernel: Linux redwald 2.4.19-powerpc #1 Mon Sep 9 09:01:43 EDT 2002 ppc
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii  debconf                    1.2.34        Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                2.4.1         Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  dpkg                       1.10.9        Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  ed                         0.2-19        The classic unix line editor
ii  libc6                      2.3.1-16      GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                    1:3.2.3-0pre6 GCC support library
ii  libkpathsea3               2.0.2-2       shared libkpathsea for teTeX
ii  libpng12-0                 1.2.5-10      PNG library - runtime
ii  libstdc++5                 1:3.2.3-0pre6 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libwww0                    5.4.0-6       The W3C WWW library
ii  libxaw7                    4.2.1-6       X Athena widget set library
ii  perl                       5.8.0-17      Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  t1lib1                     1.3.1-1       Type 1 font rasterizer library - r
ii  tetex-base                 2.0.2-2       basic teTeX library files
ii  xlibs                      4.2.1-6       X Window System client libraries
ii  zlib1g                     1:1.1.4-11    compression library - runtime

-- debconf information:
* tetex-bin/hyphen: 
  tetex-bin/oldcfg: true
* tetex-bin/cnf_name: 
* tetex-bin/use_debconf: true
* tetex-bin/groupname: users
* tetex-bin/userperm: false
* tetex-bin/groupperm: true
* tetex-bin/lsr-perms: true