Re: Effect of Replaces in coexisting packages

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

It just occurred to me that, since Norbert is on vacation, we should
perhaps send him a personal copy of that question.  Here we go:


Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch> wrote:

> Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@physik.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:
>
>> I could imagine that the best solution would be
>> to use Replaces for what it is meant, ie, remove the metrics from
>> texlive-fontsrecommended/texlive-fontsextra and have a versioned
>> Replaces and Conflicts in the font package in question. That should
>> work, right? 
>
> Yes, I think that's the best solution.  It would mean a deviation of the
> Debian TeX-live packages from upstream, but I don't think this is a
> problem here (Norbert?)
>
>> The TeX Live package could then Suggest the font package.
>
> If it is in contrib or non-free, yes.
>
>> I have no idea, though, why Norbert posted his 'don't use Replaces' message.
>
> Me neither.
>
> Regards, Frank

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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer