Bug#530832: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-08 Thread Norbert Preining
On So, 07 Jun 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: this occuring, but it's still a legitimate case (from dpkg's POV) where the package's deps will not be satisfied when 'postrm remove' is called. Ah ok thanks. Anyway I have added code to protect this problem and next upload of tex-common will fix that.

Bug#530832: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-07 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 05 juin 2009 à 21:15 +0200, Frank Küster a écrit : texlive-base's postrm, upon REMOVE, uses a command from tex-common, on which it already DEPENDS. This is allowed by policy. I’m not sure about the policy, but I’m certain that with the current dpkg version this will fail miserably

Bug#530832: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-07 Thread Norbert Preining
On So, 07 Jun 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le vendredi 05 juin 2009 à 21:15 +0200, Frank Küster a écrit : texlive-base's postrm, upon REMOVE, uses a command from tex-common, on which it already DEPENDS. This is allowed by policy. I’m not sure about the policy, but I’m certain that with

Bug#530832: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 11:36:25PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: On So, 07 Jun 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le vendredi 05 juin 2009 à 21:15 +0200, Frank Küster a écrit : texlive-base's postrm, upon REMOVE, uses a command from tex-common, on which it already DEPENDS. This is allowed by

Bug#530832: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-06 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi guys, let's calm down, its now worth discussing this even further. Policy is buggy, we try to work around it. We'll have to make an upload of texlive-2007. First we need a fixed tex-common that creates proper (for buggy policy) postrm code. Then we can bump build-dep of texlive to that

Bug#530832: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-05 Thread Luk Claes
Frank Küster wrote: Luk Claes l...@debian.org wrote: Norbert Preining wrote: On Do, 04 Jun 2009, Luk Claes wrote: Except for arguing, mixing (non?) bugs and resisting to upload an easy workaround might have made things worse btw... And that easy workaround would be??? To only conditionaly

Bug#530832: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds

2009-06-05 Thread Frank Küster
Luk Claes l...@debian.org wrote: Frank Küster wrote: Luk Claes l...@debian.org wrote: Norbert Preining wrote: On Do, 04 Jun 2009, Luk Claes wrote: Except for arguing, mixing (non?) bugs and resisting to upload an easy workaround might have made things worse btw... And that easy