Bug#241089: Old cruft in Conflicts-lines
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp> wrote:
> From: Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>
> Subject: Bug#241089: Old cruft in Conflicts-lines
> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 19:33:23 +0200
>
>> Hi,
>
> Hi,
>
>> tetex-bin (and tetex-base) have long Conflicts- and
>> Replaces-lines[1], which might originate form the time of the
>> non-teTeX to teTeX migration. As this was <=4 releases ago and a
>> smooth upgrade from pre-hamm to >=sarge will be quite impossible
>> these lines could be taken out without harm.
>
> Well, to avoid confusion,
>
>> [1] e.g.: Conflicts: texbin, xdvik, mflib, kpathsea, makeindex,
>> ps2pk, latex
>
> the above entries really originate from pre-hamm packages.
I have removed them. Replaces additionally has "texidoc". This was
once created from the texinfo sources, but unfortunately the changelog
doesn't tell when the packages vanished. Does anybody know?
>> nextawg (<= 0.5.1-34), nextaw (<< 0.8-2)
>
> nextawg, and nextaw would originate from tetex in potato
> (not sure but perhaps), i.e. because of a bug of xdvi with
> nextaw as far as I remembered.
Removed too.
>> dvipdfm, alml
>> (<< 2002.08.29-4), jbibtex-bin (<< 3.0.5+0.04-2), jtex-bin (<=
>> 1.8-5.1), passivetex (<< 1.21-5), ptex-bin (<< 3.0.5+0.04-2), xmltex
>> (<< 1.9-4), cweb, tetex-base (<< 2.0.2-6)
>
> These are necessary for woody (or at least potato) to sarge
> upgrade. Some are included in teTeX 2.0 and others are for
> compatibility with update-texmf etc. scripts.
Since we are also providing sarge backports, I'll leave these (except
cweb and tetex-base) in until security support for oldstable is dropped.
I don't think we need to support upgrades from woody after that time.
Provides also has been stripped to "dvipdfm, cweb, texdoctk"; they can
be dropped from here and Replaces at the same time, I guess.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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