Bug#865231: texlive-latex-recommended: no longer Provides latex-xcolor, making reverse dependencies uninstallable

[Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info>]

severity 865231 wishlist
tags 865231 wontfix
thanks

> This version of texlive-latex-recommended has silently (at least there
> is no mention in the Debian changelog) dropped its Provides from
> 2016.20170123-5, making two reverse dependencies of latex-xcolor

latex-xcolor has been a transitional package since 2014, that is oldstable.

Those packages still depending on it need to be updated.

I will not carry arbitrary provides over more than two releases.

I keep this bug open as a reminder for others, but tag it as wontfix.

Norbert

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