On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 01:26:19PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Itai Seggev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So, it seems that this not a "grave" bug since it is installable, but > > perhaps it is still "serious" bug since it doesn't have sufficient > > dependencies to ensure installability? At any rate, that's for you, > > Kindly Mr. Maintainer, to decide. > > In order to understand what is going on, we need the packages which are > actually installed on your system. Please send the output of > > dpkg -l tex-common > dpkg -l tetex* | grep -v '^un' > dpkg -l texlive* | grep -v '^un'
Below is the info you asked for. As for the reason why I have an old version of tex-common: some packages {lyx-common,tipa,mathpartir} now depend exlucisvely on texlive* instead of texlive*|tetex*, so when I hit 'U' (upgrade-available) in aptitute it would try to pull in texlive, creating confilcts with other packages which have transitioned to texlive yet. That's how I discoved a couple of months back about the transition. I've therefore been avoiding upgrading any tex-related packages for fear of pulling in tex-live. Obviously, a few tex packages slipped in during my last upgrade. (With the new libc entering lenny, some 300 packages entered in just a few days.) If you think I should/would like me upgrade tex-common, I'd be happy to. It seems that only the three pacakges listed above depend only on texlive. Is it a bug to only depend on texlive instead of texlive|tetex? Let me know if you need anyting else. -- Itai Seggev Visiting Assistant Professor Office: Lewis 121A Department of Physics and Astronomy Phone: +1-662-915-3887 University of Mississippi Fax: +1-662-915-5045 Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-========================================================== ii tex-common 1.0.1 Common infrastructure for using and building TeX in Debian Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-=================-==============-============================================ ii tetex-base 3.0.dfsg.3-5 Basic TeX input files of teTeX ii tetex-bin 3.0-30 The teTeX programs pn tetex-brev <none> (no description available) ii tetex-doc 3.0.dfsg.3-5 The documentation component of the Debian te ii tetex-doc-nonfree 1.1 teTeX documentation that is non-free ii tetex-extra 3.0.dfsg.3-5 Additional TeX input files of teTeX pn tetex-frogg <none> (no description available) pn tetex-frogg-doc <none> (no description available) pn tetex-src <none> (no description available) Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-===========================-==============-============================================ pn texlive <none> (no description available) pn texlive-base <none> (no description available) pn texlive-base-bin <none> (no description available) pn texlive-bibtex-extra <none> (no description available) pn texlive-chemistry <none> (no description available) rc texlive-common 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