Florent Rougon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, you would want texlive-base-bin, instead of tex-common, to run > mktexlsr, update-updmap and updmap-sys? Because it ships mktexlsr and > updmap-sys, and depends on tex-common, which provides mktexlsr? Makes > sense. And tetex-bin could do the same, since several packages can be > interested in the same triggers.
Yes, except that tex-common doesn't provide mktexlsr, but only update-updmap. >> This is more a problem: I think that if the trigger fails and the >> package that runs it is put into state failed-config (or even if it's >> put into failed-config for non-trigger reasons), this should affect all >> packages that Depend on it. > > Seems natural to me, but is not what is happening with current dpkg. And > this isn't a new problem brought by the trigger spec, it's a general > behavior of dpkg wrt dependencies I know. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

