Bug#411537: texlive-extra-utils: Installs /usr/bin/dvidvi, which is also in package dvidvi
Package: texlive-extra-utils
Version: 2005.dfsg.2-10, 2005.dfsg.2-11
Severity: serious
$ findpkg -r dvidvi
testing
[...]
usr/bin/dvidvi tex/dvidvi,tex/texlive-extra-utils
[...]
usr/share/man/man1/dvidvi.1.gz tex/dvidvi,tex/texlive-extra-utils
,---- http://release.debian.org/etch_rc_policy.txt
| Packages must not install programs in the default PATH with
| different functionality with the same file name, even if they
| Conflict:.
`----
I discovered this while working on the new upstream version. My machine
and my time constraints don't allow to work on two versions at the same
time. Therefore this will have to wait one or two days before it's
fixed (by excluding dvidvi from texlive-extra-utils).
Regards, Frank
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (99, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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