Bug#425781: texlive-base: Upgrade failes

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

tags 425781 pending
tags 425813 pending
thanks

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

> On Sam, 26 Mai 2007, Norbert Preining wrote:
>> So in fact this *IS* enough as it is by now, do you agree?

Yes.

>> I checked in the following code:
>>     if [ -f "$cfgfile.preinst-deleted" ]; then
>>       echo "It looks like $cfgfile has been removed."
>>       echo "In most cases this is a consequence of bug #420390."
>>       echo "We are reinstatiating this config file."
>>       echo "If you *really* want this to be removed, do it again,"
>>       echo "but beware of the consequences."
>>       echo ""
>>       #mv "$cfgfile" "$cfgfile.dpkg-new"
>>       rm "$cfgfile.preinst-deleted"
>>     fi
>> 
>> If someone wants to add some debconf magic (I would prefer to do it
>> without...), please!
>
> I added a close clause to the texlive-bin package closing the
> texlive-bin bug.
>
> After the upload of texlive-bin -10 we should close the -base bug by
> hand, since no further -base upload is necessary.

Agreed.

> Or we push up the texlive-full/texlive dependency and texlive-common
> conflict to a higher level and upload also -base. But this is useless
> since all is in unstable for now, and we don't have to deal with
> intermediate packages in testing.
>
> Frank, could you upload texlive-bin this week and close the base bug
> afterwards...

Yes, I'll do that.  Surely not today or on Sunday, probably on Monday,
maybe a bit later.

Regards, Frank

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