Re: another two freez exceptions for texlive-base and texlice-extra
Hi Julien, hi Release managers,
On Mo, 13 Sep 2010, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > > > * add the forgotten epoch for musixtex dependency (Closes: #587746)
> > > >
> > > > This chnage is trivail, it only adds the forgotten epco to musixtex
> > > > dependency, which was not included in the upload before. It is not
> > > > aserious issue, since there are no other musixtex packages around
> > > > anyway.
> > > >
> > > If there's likely to be other changes before release I'd rather defer
> > > this. Otherwise go ahead.
> >
> > Currently I have nothing in the queue, but if you want I can still wait
> > a bit.
> >
> Whichever you prefer, I don't mind.
I waited a bit, but nothing more thatwe should press into squeeze did
show up, so I uloaded now.
> > > > 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.
Reverted, so the only change is the pre-edit cnffile change and a minor
change in the bug scriptdescription (no code change).
I uploaded both to unstable now, please grand a freeze exception.
Thanks for your work and all the best
Norbert
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