Hello, The problem was that ghostview/menu interaction disrupted the upgrade process. This solves the problem in that gv will force the removal of a buggy ghostview, eliminating that problem from future upgrades. (And a conflicts in menu, or an executable menu, should solve the problem of removing ghostview when menu is not configured.)
I agree with you that Provides and a symlink would make gv a more complete ghostview replacement. But in my scan of the Packages lists, I didn't see anything which Depends on ghostview, making Provides not strictly necessary. And a symlink would mainly avoid confusion on the part of non-admin users, again a different issue. Do you think these warrant a new wishlist bug? Or do you feel that the lack of Provides and symlink make this bug unfinished? (In which case feel free to reopen it...) Thanks, Adam On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 10:54 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 08:33:59AM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > Package: gv > > Severity: wishlist > > > > Greetings, > > > > ghostview's removal from the archive presents problems since its postrm > > in woody is buggy, e.g. bug 289702. Please provide an upgrade path by > > conflicting with and replacing ghostview, so ghostview users will get a > > similar postscript previewer when they upgrade to sarge. > > I am a bit confused: don't you need to also Provides: ghostview ? > (and maybe add a symlink ghostview->gv). > > It is unclear to me that just Conflict/Replace ghostview will > help at all. > > Cheers, -Adam -- GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Welcome to the best software in the world today cafe! http://www.take6.com/albums/greatesthits.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
