Re: Error installing texlive-base
On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 10:56:25AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Jo, 14 oct 21, 13:47:22, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 01:51:07PM -0300, Victor Hugo Muñoz wrote:
> > > And it looks that this worked! You were right, I had not the latest
> > > version, so I upgraded dpkg, and yes, texlive-base passed the
> > > installation without errors.
> >
> > Is this considered a bug in texlive-base, i.e. that it should contain a
> > Pre-Depends: on a specific version of dpkg? Or is it the case that *all*
> > of the packages in bookworm are going to have this issue, and so they're
> > not going to bother with a Pre-Depends: in every single package, but
> > instead will handle the dist-upgrade in some other way?
>
> Packages are not allowed to use dpkg features that are not present in
> stable.
>
> In this particular case, according to the changelog 'dpkg' introduced
> that feature in 1.20.6, while stable already has 1.20.9.
Huh, interesting. So the OP's problem arose because they're running
post-bullseye unstable or testing, with pre-bullseye dpkg? Gah. Why
do people do things like this to themselves....
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