Bug#427859: Acknowledgement (lmodern fails to configure on upgrade, dpkg error)
Itai Seggev <is+debian@cs.hmc.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 01:26:19PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
>> Itai Seggev <is+debian@cs.hmc.edu> wrote:
>>
>> > So, it seems that this not a "grave" bug since it is installable, but
>> > perhaps it is still "serious" bug since it doesn't have sufficient
>> > dependencies to ensure installability? At any rate, that's for you,
>> > Kindly Mr. Maintainer, to decide.
>>
>> In order to understand what is going on, we need the packages which are
>> actually installed on your system. Please send the output of
>>
>> dpkg -l tex-common
>> dpkg -l tetex* | grep -v '^un'
>> dpkg -l texlive* | grep -v '^un'
>
> Below is the info you asked for.
ii tetex-base 3.0.dfsg.3-5 Basic TeX input files of teTeX
Previously, you wrote:
,----
| OK, so the problem turned out to be that aptitutde had decided to
| upgrade tetex-base to 2007-9 instead of leaving it at 3.whatever
`----
So did you downgrade tetex-base again? Did you downgrade any other
packages?
> It seems that only the three pacakges listed above depend only on
> texlive. Is it a bug to only depend on texlive instead of
> texlive|tetex? Let me know if you need anyting else.
In sid it is a bug to still depend on tetex. In lenny - well, that's
hard to tell. I'd say if the package is installable with texlive, it
doesn't make sense to keep it out of lenny just because the obsolete
tetex is still there.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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