Re: Question for DD: TeX live upload to unstable?

[Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr>]

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

> Hmmm, can one of you give me a hint how to proceed in this:
>
> - texlive-extra-utils 2005-1 has /usr/bin/dvi2tty
> - texlive-extra-utils *should* depend on dvi2tty and does not include
>   the dvi2tty files
>
> How can I do this that the upgrade works smooth? dpkg first tries to
> unpack dvi2tty which breaks because 2005-1 is installed. And it cannot
> install 2005-2 as it depends on dvi2tty?

Quite logical.

I see only two solutions:
  - manually help your users having difficulties to upgrade (by mail,
    telling them to remove 2005-1 before upgrading). This is still
    acceptable IMO as texlive is still in experimental.
  - first upload a version of texlive-extra-utils that Conflicts with
    dvi2tty and then, upload the version that depends on dvi2tty. Of
    course, the upgrade will be smooth only if the user upgrades to
    2005-2 before upgrading to 2005-3...

I think I would go for the first solution, myself.

-- 
Florent