Re: Bug#231235: arabtex font installation is broken
On 08.02.04 Florent Rougon (f.rougon@free.fr) wrote:
> Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
>
> >> Of course, this is because of the new updmap interface... but as I
> >> mentioned in the "arabtex and tetex 2" subthread and forgot while
> >> writing the previous message, this will probably break since tetex-bin
> >> would not want to be upgraded before arabtex because of its Conflicts
> >> with arabtex (<< earlier-version).
Hmm. I don't understand to less about dpkg. What will happen if
anybody tries to upgrade tetex-bin. Will tetex-bin not just remove
arabtex and try to upgrade it?
> > I think Atsuhito has put in the Conflict by mistake. Taking it out
> > will solve the problem.
>
> Not really. Without the Conflicts, it is possible that tetex is
> upgraded with the old arabtex package still installed, which will
> fail because they have a file (link/directory) clash:
> /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config, IIRC. This is why the Conflicts was
> added in the first place...
>
What does mean "tetex is upgraded"? tetex-bin, tetex-base? tetex-base
will conflict with arabtex. The dependence of tetex-bin to
tetex-base is not tight enough to pull in a recent tetex-base.
You mean we have 2 possibilities:
1. keep that Conflicts field in tetex-bin
2. tighten the dependencies of tetex-bin and tetex-base to make sure
tetex-bin pulls in the to be uploaded tetex-base?
H.
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