Re: "Smooth upgrade" for jadetex/xmltex: transitional packages?
Hi Frank,
On Fre, 29 Jun 2007, Frank Küster wrote:
> 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.).
Good.
> 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.
Yup.
> 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
The problem is with rdepends:
$ apt-cache rdepends jadetex
jadetex
Reverse Depends:
translate-docformat
texlive-full
sgmltools-lite
sgml2x
docbook-utils
docbook-dsssl
caspar
$ apt-cache rdepends ...all the above... we get (besides others):
gtk-doc-tools
kernel-package
asciidoc
sgmltools-lite
lyx
kdevelop
So for those installing lyx, or kdevelop, or ... we would get the old
jadetex.
So I guess for jadetex we would have to create a transitional package
and file bugs agains the few packages.
xmltex nothing depends on.
Best wishes
Norbert
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