Re: Bug#419756: albatross: FTBFS: epstopdf: Command not found
On Mit, 18 Apr 2007, Florent Rougon wrote:
> > Yes they do: texlive-extra-utils/2007 depends on
> > texlive-common/2007 conflicts with
> > texlive-pdfetex
>
> That is not enough. With these depends and conflicts, apt could unpack
> texlive-extra-utils/2007 while texlive-pdfetex is unpacked (because they
> don't conflict), which I suppose would fail (because I suppose that
> epstopdf is shipped in the same path in both packages).
>
> The dependency you cited only ensures that texlive-extra-utils/2007 will
> be *configured* after texlive-common/2007 is configured. Nothing about
> unpacking, which is where file conflicts usually happen.
Hmm. What about asking removal of texlive-pdfetex? Would be the cleanest
solution ;-)
Best wishes
Norbert
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