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



On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 11:40:27AM +0100, Richard Atterer wrote:
> [Please keep CCing me!]
> 
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 07:50:12PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > 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 is the result of a change of mine to the libwww-ssl0 shlibs:
> Previously, even linking against libwww-ssl0 produced a
> "libwww0|libwww-ssl0" dependency, which actually worked most of the time
> - but not always, see #174694.
> 
> libwww-dev depends on libwww0|libwww-ssl0, and I'd rather not change that. 
> It seems the right solution would be for tetex-bin to build-depend on
> libwww0 (in addition to libwww-dev, of course) - or would this cause
> problems elsewhere?

Seems reasonable to me.  Can the tetex-bin maintainer please change his
Build-Depends accordingly, then?

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |     Suffer before God and ye shall be
Debian GNU/Linux                   |     redeemed.  God loves us, so He
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