Re: SVN tetex commit: r150 and r151
Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
>> So you mean there actually is a problem?
>>
> Well, it was at the time when I tried to upgrade from something like
> tetex-base 3.0-3 to the most recent one. I could not install the
> latest tex-common together with the old version as both contain the
> soft link /usr/share/texmf/ls-R.
frank@alhambra:~$ dpkg -S usr/share/texmf/ls-R
tetex-base: /usr/share/texmf/ls-R
frank@alhambra:~$ dpkg -l tetex-base tex-common
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-========================-========================-================================================================
ii tetex-base 3.0-7 Basic library files of teTeX
ii tex-common 0.6 Common infrastructure for using and building TeX in Debian
Ah, you're right. My problem was that 0.7 is not available for the
sarge backports on people.debian.org, and so I still have 0.6
installed.
> To make it completely clean tex-common 0.7 should conflict with a
> tetex-base still containing the link.
I think it just needs Replaces - but I'll think it over later today.
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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