Christoph Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Marcelo Magallon writes: > > On 28 Feb 1997, Christoph Martin wrote: > > > > > > The obvious solution is to remove all TeX files conflicting with teTeX > > > > before installing teTeX, but this is not "user friendly", "nice", > > > > "cool", etc. > > > > > > You have no other chance. dpkg can't handle all (more than one) the > > > replaces. > > > > Then, to the maintainer, PLEASE, include instructions about this unless we > > want to see the question "How do I upgrade TeX?" n+1 times on > > debian-user... I'm guessing something in the lines of "In dselect [R]emove > > packages *first*, *then* [I]nstall them" would work, but a bit more > > Where do you want to put these instructions? I have posted > instructions to debian-user and debian-devel. If you put it in the > preinst script it is to late. > > > descriptive/less cryptic. Also, isn't there a workaround for the latex > > bug? I wouldn't like to see that question either, considering THERE IS a > > known solution. > > > > The only solution I know is to do it in the right order, but how do > you enforce this?
Some ideas on workarounds for the dpkg bug: What about a dummy package tetex-convertion? tetex-convertion replaces every old tex package. tetex-convertion conflicts with every old tex package. tetex-convertion is (pre)required by new tetexpackages Perhaps, one dummy package for each old tex package could solve the problem if the above approach fails. PS: I can't try myself these approchs. -- Alair Pereira do Lago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.ime.usp.br/~alair> Computer Science Department -- Universidade de S~ao Paulo -- Brazil