On 13.09.10 Julien Cristau (jcristau@debian.org) wrote: > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 22:18:03 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: Hi Julien, hi all, > > On Sa, 11 Sep 2010, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > > texlive-base 2009-11 > > > > > > > > * texlive-base conflict with texlive-base-bin-doc to get it removed > > > > (Closes: #589205) > > > > * avoid unneeded 10texlive-base.cnfpre-edit files in /etc/texmf/fmt.d, > > > > thanks Jörg-Volker Peetz (Closes: #584950) > > > > > > > > The first item is harmless, more important is the second. > > > > > > > I don't understand the rationale for the first item. If the old package > > > is not doing any actual harm then conflicting with it isn't necessary. > > > > Yes that is true, but it duplicates information in a way that one might > > believe there is telxive-base-bin and the binaries. The very same docs > > are shipped now in different packages, so yes, in principle it should > > not harm, but we did it for cleaning up the upgrade 2007->2009. > > > > If you prefer I can revert it. > > > Conflicts create problems for upgrades so if this is not strictly > necessary then yes, please revert it. > The situation is: texlive-base-bin-doc is from TeX Live 2007, the package does not exist any more in TeX Live 2009. The idea is to remove old packages (from TL 2007) during dist-upgrade. What is the best method to do so? A simple "Replaces" is not sufficient AFAICT. H. -- "Love your country but never trust its government." -- from a hand-painted road sign in central Pennsylvania http://www.hilmar-preusse.de.vu/
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