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Bug#400657: example feynmf package



Frank Küster wrote:
> "Kevin B. McCarty" <kmccarty@Princeton.EDU> wrote:
> 
>>fixes.  Could you please test that version instead?  I've done some
>>tests to make sure that apt-get/aptitude do the right thing in various
>>installation scenarios.  If everything looks good to you and Norbert
>>I'll upload it to ftp-master.
> 
> Hm, I neither have time for testing, nor any experience with feynmf (or
> much experience with texlive, for that matter), so I'm not the person to
> test this.  But I think if you can install it and run one of your
> example files, the worst thing that can happen is that the package is
> missing a Recommends.

OK, after running a few more tests (with apt-get so it doesn't pull in
Recommends), I'm just about certain the dependencies are right.  I've
gone ahead and uploaded the new feynmf package to Debian.

>>Norbert Preining wrote:
>>
>>>Frank: If you want you can do an upload, just add
>>>	blacklist;tpm;feynmf;*
>>>to the cfg file (if feynmf is the right tpm name). Then we have to add something like
>>>	recommends;texlive-metapost;feynmf (>= ???)
>>>(version necessary???) and maybe something like
>>>	depends;texlive-full;feynmf
>>
>>If you want a versioned recommends from texlive-metapost, I guess it
>>should be >= 1.08-3.
> 
> I don't think this is needed or would do any good.  You simply can't
> fulfill older feynmf's dependencies with texlive, but texlive would have
> worked with the old version, wouldn't it?  So adding a version would
> only make control files more complicated, and possible make apt(itude)s
> resolver decisions harder upon upgrade.

Yes, the older package would have worked with TeXLive if the
dependencies had been satisfiable.  So I suppose there is no need for a
versioned recommends, as you say.

Thanks for all your advice and patience,

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Kevin B. McCarty <kmccarty@princeton.edu>   Physics Department
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