Bug#314948: tex-common does not install: conflicts with tetex-bin
Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> writes:
> Hans Ulrich Niedermann <debian@n-dimensional.de> wrote:
>
>> Package: tex-common
>> Version: 0.1
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> tex-common conflicts with tetex-bin:
>> ii tetex-bin 2.0.2-30 The teTeX binary files
>>
>> Unpacking tex-common (from .../tex-common_0.1_all.deb) ...
>> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/tex-common_0.1_all.deb
>> (--unpack):
>> trying to overwrite `/usr/sbin/update-fmtutil', which is also in
>
> The problem is that tex-common needs a versioned Conflicts: line against
> tetex-bin, but we don't know yet which version of tetex-bin will work
> together with it. Therefore I just left it empty, because I didn't
> expect people would actually try it ;-).
Then may this bug report serve as a reminder to add a Conflicts: line
when you know the tetex-bin version.
> I will add a conflict with the currently newest version of tetex-bin in
> the next upload, but I cannot promise when that will happen.
No problem, this is just a reminder.
Uli
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