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

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 28.03.03 Branden Robinson (branden@debian.org) wrote:

Hi,

> [CCing w3c-libwww maintainer, as this concerns him.]
> 
Didn't see an Cc-field. Is there something like
w3c-libwww-maint@packages.debian.org?

> 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)
> 
drachi:[hille] >dpkg -s tetex-bin |egrep "Dep|Ver"
Version: 1.0.7+20011202-7.1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libkpathsea3 (>= 1.0.7+20011202-1), libpng2 (>= 1.0.12), libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 (>= 1:2.95.4-0.010810), libtiff3g, libxaw7 (>> 4.1.0), xlibs (>> 4.1.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), tetex-base (>= 1.0.2+20011202-1), ed, debianutils (>= 1.13.1)
Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.6.8)
drachi:[hille] >

No. It had a Build Depend on that package, but the configure skript
was not called to link dynamically against an existing libwww0.
Calling ./configure with --system-libwww (or similiar) made the Build
fail. So the sources of tetex-bin provided it's own libwww and linked
statically.

H. 
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