Re: another two freez exceptions for texlive-base and texlice-extra
Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:25:57 +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
> Transitional package for one release, or just let people clean up
> manually, AFAIK.
Isn't the way this should be done that texlive-base
Conflicts: texlive-base-bin-doc
Replaces: texlive-base-bin-doc
Provides: texlive-base-bin-doc
and then the package should go away smoothly, without any problems
during dist-upgrade?
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Debian Developer (TeXLive)
VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg
B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg
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