Bug#418995: Problems when replacing teTeX with TeXLive (was: SVN texlive (new) commit: r2684 - in texlive-new/trunk: all/debian texlive-base/debian texlive-bin/debian texlive-lang/debian)

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org> wrote:

> FWIW, this was upgraded in this same dist-upgrade run. I see that
> the texlive binaries for ppc already picked up a dep on libc6 >= 2.5, maybe
> that has something to do with it?

Unless that influences dpkg...

>> > On a normal install, apt-get or aptitude will first install tl-common
>> > before trying any of the packages Rene reported about, and this will
>> 
>> it didn't.
> [...]
>> it didn't. On the seconf try continuing the upgrade it did, yes,but not
>> at the first run.
>> 
>> > I've tried this long ago...
>
> Not to mention the behaviour is non-deterministic. I've seen that often
> that it did a specific order on system A and another one on B.

Hm.  We've got 

tetex-bin_2007-2:
        Depends: texlive
texlive_2007-2:
        Depends: ..., texlive-latex-base
texlive-latex-base_2007-2:
        Depends: texlive-base, texlive-common (>= 2007)

and

texlive-common_2007-2:
        Conflicts: tetex-bin (<< 2007)

Moreover, the only texlive-* in sid is 2007-2 (-1 is only in
experimental).

Could you please check the installed versions of all of them?  Maybe we
need more versioned dependencies (in particular, tetex-bin should
probably depend on texlive-common (>= 2007)).

Regards, Frank

-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)