Bug#530832: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds
Frank Küster wrote:
> Luk Claes <luk@debian.org> wrote:
>
>> Norbert Preining wrote:
>>> On Do, 04 Jun 2009, Luk Claes wrote:
>>>> Except for arguing, mixing (non?) bugs and resisting to upload an easy
>>>> workaround might have made things worse btw...
>>> And that easy workaround would be???
>> To only conditionaly use a command that seems to not always be available.
>
> COULD YOU PLEASE START READING WHAT WE ARE WRITING?
Could you please do that from the start and not spread fud and shout all
the time?
> texlive-base's postrm, upon REMOVE, uses a command from tex-common, on
> which it already DEPENDS. This is allowed by policy.
Sure, though policy not describing what really happens will only make it
a bug in policy AND your package...
> The fact that in this particular chroot, texlive-base was installed
> without tex-common being installed, or even unpacked, is NOT A BUG OF
> tex-common.
Sure it is.
> It seems it is a bug of policy, or dpkg.
Also true.
Cheers
Luk
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