Re: Bug#231235: arabtex font installation is broken
Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster) wrote:
>
>> In fact it's even more complicated:
>>
>> The filename clash makes it necessary for tetex-*base* to conflict with
>> arabtex<=3.10-5 (and it was a mistake to put the Conflicts: to
>> tetex-*bin*. Let's investigate:
>
> Right. I didn't pay attention to the fact that the Conflicts was added
> to tetex-bin. As I wrote in:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-tetex-maint/2004/debian-tetex-maint-200402/msg00102.html
>
> tetex-*base* must hold the Conflicts.
>
>> arabtex: Depends tetex-bin >=2
>> tetex-base: Conflicts arabtex <=3.10-5
>> tetex-bin: Depends tetex-base=$nearly-same-version
>>
>> Thus, we have a circular situation, if all three packages are to be
>> upgraded from woody: arabtex cannot be upgraded unless tetex-bin is
>> upgraded, this needs tetex-base, but this cannot be upgraded because
>> arabtex is still installed.
>
> No, you are replaying what I wrote in the message that confused
> everyone. Please reread the message pointed above, and tell me if it
> doesn't solve the problem you think you are seeing (the key is to think
> of {unpacking, configuration} and not only of {upgrading} of packages).
You're right: The way you proposed in the above link will work smoothly,
AFAIS.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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