Re: tetex-base needs a new orig.tar.gz
On 03.07.04 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
Hi,
> I noticed that the dependencies between tetex-bin and tetex-base are
> awkward:
>
> tetex-bin: Conflicts: tetex-base (<< 2.0.2-6)
> Depends: tetex-base (>> 2.0.2-5.1)
>
> tetex-base: Conflicts: tetex-bin (<= 2.0.2-3)
>
> I think for tetex-bin it would be sufficient to have the Conflicts
> versioned, and the Depends without a version. Alternatively, we
> should rather use Conflicts: tetex-base (<< $version) together with
> Depends: tetex-base (>= $version), because it's easier to
> understand. But are there any reasons why we can't simply use an
> unversioned depends? It won't be unpacked with the old tetex-base
> being installed, and it won't be configured without any tetex-base
> installed - and here any results in "recent enough". Comments?
>
As Florent already wrote, that should be sufficient.
> As for the new problem, we cannot put the information into
> tetex-bin, because then one could install the new tetex-base and
> keep the old tetex-bin, which would then fail upon
> dpkg-reconfigure. Therefore, we have to increase the versioned
> conflicts:
>
> tetex-base: Conflicts: tetex-bin (<= 2.0.2-15)
>
Cause in another case tetex-bin would look for hyphenation patterns,
which doesn't exist any more, correct?
Make it so.
H.
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