Bug#391377: tetex-extra: aptitude wants to remove tetex-extra upon dist-upgrade to etch
Package: tetex-extra
Version: 3.0-23~bpo.1
Severity: normal
under certain circumstances (I discovered that when logging into a woody
pbuilder, installing tetex-extra, dist-upgrading to sarge and then to
etch), aptitude refuses to update tetex-extra. It looks like this:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libxft1: Depends: xfree86-common but it is not installable
Resolving dependencies...
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Remove the following packages:
libxft1
xlibs
Keep the following packages at their current version:
build-essential [10.1 (now)]
dpkg-dev [1.10.28 (now)]
tetex-base [2.0.2c-8 (now)]
tetex-bin [2.0.2-30sarge4 (now)]
tetex-extra [2.0.2c-8 (now)]
tex-common [Not Installed]
texinfo [4.7-2.2 (now)]
Upgrade the following packages:
libwww0 [5.4.0-9 (now) -> 5.4.0-11 (testing)]
Score is -572
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
Neither tetex-bin nor texinfo depend on libxft1 (or xfree86-common). It
does depend on xlibs, however. So I press n three many times to finally get:
Resolving dependencies...
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Remove the following packages:
libxft1
tetex-extra
xlibs
Keep the following packages at their current version:
build-essential [10.1 (now)]
dpkg-dev [1.10.28 (now)]
Leave the following dependencies unresolved:
tetex-bin recommends libxml-parser-perl
Score is -943
Why on earth does it want to remove tetex-extra?
Depends: tetex-base (>= 3.0-11), tetex-bin (>= 2.99), ucf (>= 1.02)
Recommends: latex-beamer, latex-xcolor, lmodern, pgf, preview-latex-style, texinfo
Is this a bug in aptitude, or a problem in tetex-extra?
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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