"Smooth upgrade" for jadetex/xmltex: transitional packages?
Hi,
I've built and installed the packages from the texlive-htmlxml branch,
and it seems to work fine (I've started building installation-guide and
stopped it after a view documents were created apparently successfully,
involving a jadetex process.).
The package declares Conflicts/Replaces/Provides: jadetex, xmltex, but
this is not enough to force a replacement - that's the usual problem
AFAIK. We would need an empty transitional package for each of them
which depends on texlive-xml.
But I'm not sure we really need and want that. As far as I can tell,
jadetex and xmltex are mainly used as build-depends. If we just make
sure that the source and binary packages disappear from the archive, it
doesn't matter if some individual user still has the binary packages
installed. We could introduce a NEWS.Debian entry in texlive-common (or
tl-latex-base, or even tex-common, something which everybody has
installed) explaining what has been done.
What do you think?
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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