Package: xpdf Version: 3.02-10 Severity: important Hi there!
I guess there is something wrong with the transition from xpdf-[common|reader|utils] to xpdf. Indeed, both xpdf-reader and xpdf-utils have an appropriate dummy transitional package, while xpdf-common does not. Or, better, it had it, but then it was removed when trying to solve #589425. Please note that the problem is exactly the same as Adrian Bunk (cc:ed) suggested in: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=589425#20 A lenny user who installed the xpdf-reader package and *not* the old xpdf metapackage will still have the xpdf-common package installed, even after the upgrade to the new (and real) xpdf package. I tested this on a clean lenny chroot: ===== r...@gismo:/# apt-get update r...@gismo:/# apt-get install xpdf-reader [...] Setting up xpdf-common (3.02-1.4+lenny2) ... Setting up xpdf-reader (3.02-1.4+lenny2) ... r...@gismo:/# sed -e 's/lenny/squeeze/g' -i /etc/apt/sources.list r...@gismo:/# apt-get update The following packages have been kept back: [...] perl-base perl-modules readline-common sed sysv-rc util-linux wget xpdf-reader [...] r...@gismo:/# apt-get install xpdf-reader The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libpopt0 whiptail libt1-5 file libxpm4 libnewt0.52 defoma gsfonts libpaper1 libmagic1 xpdf-common Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following extra packages will be installed: fontconfig-config libexpat1 libfontconfig1 libjpeg62 liblcms1 libopenjpeg2 libpng12-0 libpoppler5 libxml2 ttf-dejavu-core xpdf [...] The following packages will be upgraded: xpdf-reader [...] Preparing to replace xpdf-reader 3.02-1.4+lenny2 (using .../xpdf-reader_3.02-11_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement xpdf-reader ... Selecting previously deselected package xpdf. Unpacking xpdf (from .../xpdf_3.02-11_amd64.deb) ... Replacing files in old package xpdf-common ... [...] Installing new version of config file /etc/xpdf/xpdfrc ... Setting up xpdf-reader (3.02-11) ... r...@gismo:/# dpkg -l xpdf\* [...] ii xpdf 3.02-11 Portable Document Format (PDF) reader [...] ii xpdf-common 3.02-1.4+lenny2 Portable Document Format (PDF) suite -- common files [...] ii xpdf-reader 3.02-11 Transitional package for xpdf r...@gismo:/# ===== First, the new xpdf package overwrite files belonging to the old xpdf-common package, and while this seems to be OK, it should be avoided (given that this is a simple transition). Second, the xpdf-common package is left installed and it is not automatically removed, which means that the other configuration files in /etc/xpdf (xpdfrc-arabic, xpdfrc-cyrillic, xpdfrc-greek, xpdfrc-hebrew, xpdfrc-latin2, xpdfrc-thai and xpdfrc-turkish) are left installed as well, with the user noticing nothing about that. The correct solution is to also provide a transitional xpdf-common package, please do that. BTW1, I discovered this because I have not upgraded my sid during the xpdf transition, which means that now I am stucked with xpdf-common_3.02-2, xpdf-reader_3.02-2 and no more xpdf-utils (replaced by poppler-utils_0.12.4-1.1), as shown below. BTW2, I set the version affecting this bug to the first version which completely removed the xpdf-common package, while IMHO a more correct version would be the same as the one in #589425, thus 3.02-9. For this reason, I was tempting to reopen that bug instead, given that it was not /completely/ fixed... Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash xpdf-common depends on no packages. Versions of packages xpdf-common recommends: ii gsfonts-x11 0.21 Make Ghostscript fonts available t Versions of packages xpdf-common suggests: ii poppler-utils [xpdf-utils] 0.12.4-1.1 PDF utilitites (based on libpopple ii xpdf-reader 3.02-2 Portable Document Format (PDF) sui -- no debconf information
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