Re: For the historians: Do we still need the Conflicts: on tetex-lib?
From: Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr>
Subject: Re: For the historians: Do we still need the Conflicts: on tetex-lib?
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 00:01:13 +0100
> Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > libkpathsea Conflicts, Provides, Replaces tetex-lib. However, I could
> > not find any occurrence of tetex-lib as a non-virtual package.
> >
> > Did this package ever exist in Debian (I only looked in main)? Shouldn't
>
> The only occurrence of tetex-lib in woody and sid's
> /var/lib/dpkg/available files (with main, contrib and non-free) are in
> libkpathsea3's stanza: the Provides, Replaces and Conflicts you
> mentioned.
>
> > we drop this, since for sure it wasn't in the last two stable releases?
>
> I think it is safe to drop it now. Not that I consider myself an
> historian, though...
I'm not a historian but, fortunately, I have some
(old) Debian books and magazines with CDs so I checked
them a bit.
It seemed in very old days (before slink) tetex
had provided kpathsea libraries as tetex-dev package
in section tex(!) and only as static library(?).
In potato, it was renamed as (!)tetex-lib(!) and moved
in section libs, further, it seemed it shipped shared
library for the first time(?).
And at last, in woody, it was renamed (and splitted?)
as libkpathsea3, libkpathsea-dev as you know.
Of course I only checked Packages files and/or
dpkg -c tetex-*.deb | grep kpathsea
so I'm not completely sure what I wrote.
Regards, 2004-3-26(Fri)
--
Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima
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