Bug#197954: tetex-base: Upgrade failure in testing with removal of pxfonts (and description of work around)

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

From: Mike Dornberger <Mike.Dornberger@Student.Uni-Magdeburg.DE>
Subject: Bug#197954: tetex-base: Upgrade failure in testing with removal of pxfonts (and description of work around)
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 23:25:42 +0200

> > It is very easy for pxfonts to fix this.  I think
> > it is better to leave this bug to pxfonts.
> 
> I don't know for sure how this could be done without breaking the upgrade
> process. 

I suspect you know the way to do ;)

> Maybe an empty pxfonts package could be created and the Conflicts: pxfonts
> in tetex-base should be removed or replaced with Conflicts: pxfonts (<<
> 1.0+1-5). 

This is a standard way of handling this kind of problem, 
I believe.  (Not removing Conflicts but versioned Conflicts
would be a real fix, IMHO.)

> Another thing: No one has answered to the last two paragraphs of my initial
> post (changed conffiles, Provides: pxfonts). Any opinions about that?

These seem to be another kind of issue so I reply with
another email.

Thanks,			2003-7-18(Fri)

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 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
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