Re: "Smooth upgrade" for jadetex/xmltex: transitional packages?
Hi,
Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
> 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.
I don't understand your goal. With your proposal, if I understand it
correctly, users who have installed jadetex or xmltex would be left with
the old packages until they remove them themselves, presumably after
having read a debconf note, right? So, basically, it's "upgrade works if
you do it manually, dude". I don't see the point...
What's the problem with uploading dummy jadetex and xmltex packages?
Synchronisation with TL?
--
Florent
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