Comment 6 for bug 188910

On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 06:42:02PM -0000, Norbert Preining wrote:
>
> On Mi, 06 Feb 2008, Ming Hua wrote:
>
> > shipped in texlive-latex-base (src:texlive-base) 2007-10; In hardy,
> > this file is moved to texlive-formats-extra. No Replaces seems to exist
> > in the Debian unstable, and it apparently isn't a big deal for Debian
> > now (testing already has texlive-base 2007-13).
>
> Yes, I didn't introduce them because I uploaded the respective versions
> of -base and -extra at the same time, and ignored the problem that it
> takes different time to enter testing.

This is tangent to the bug at hand, but I think it doesn't really matter
when those packages enters testing. My understanding is that when you
uploaded those two packages at the the same time, the upgrade path in
unstable is immediately broken. Although broken upgrade in unstable
only is usually not a big problem.

> > Norbert, is it possible to add proper Replaces for Debian's texlive-
> > formats-extra package? Or is Ubuntu on its own here?
>
> If you prefer I can add a Replaces, but is it really useful now? It is
> only for the development version, right?

No, Ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy) was released with texlive-base 2007-10.

> Anyway, tell me and I will add it to the Debian pacakges next upload.

We need this Replaces relation for a smooth gutsy->hardy upgrade. So if
you can add it to the Debian texlive-formats-extra package (though I
don't what exact version of texlive-latex-base it should replace), it
would be very helpful.

Ming
2008.02.09