Hi, this issue has now been known a week without an answer from any of the maintainers of the involved packages. I'm going to fix the auctex bug in an NMU, so that it can migrate to testing and preview-latex be removed. The patch is below, the urgency is going to be high, since this is a trivial change.
Davide, I hope I don't interfere while you are just about to upload your own version. But since we haven't heard anything from you, I am not willing to wait. Regards, Frank diff -Nur auctex-11.83.old/debian/changelog auctex-11.83/debian/changelog --- auctex-11.83.old/debian/changelog 2006-10-26 11:52:27.000000000 +0200 +++ auctex-11.83/debian/changelog 2006-10-26 11:50:51.000000000 +0200 @@ -1,3 +1,12 @@ +auctex (11.83-2.1) unstable; urgency=high + + * NMU to fix RC bug + * Add "Provides: preview-latex". The package actually does this, and + this will allow the RC-buggy preview-latex package to be removed from + etch (closes: #395294) + + -- Frank KÃŒster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:30:43 +0200 + auctex (11.83-2) unstable; urgency=low * {auctex, preview-latex-style}/{postinst.in, postrm.in, prerm.in}: diff -Nur auctex-11.83.old/debian/control auctex-11.83/debian/control --- auctex-11.83.old/debian/control 2006-10-26 11:52:27.000000000 +0200 +++ auctex-11.83/debian/control 2006-10-26 09:31:03.000000000 +0200 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ Suggests: catdvi, dvipng, lacheck Conflicts: emacspeak (<= 17.0-1), preview-latex Replaces: preview-latex +Provides: preview-latex Description: An integrated environment for editing TeX and friends documents AUCTeX is a comprehensive customizable integrated environment for writing input files for TeX/LaTeX/ConTeXt/Texinfo using Emacs. -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)