On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 05:15:46PM -0700, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 11:33:07AM +0200, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > The simple practical solution to this particular problem will be to > > remove preview-latex from the archive as soon as auctex has reached > > testing. But I think something's seriously wrong with aptitude's > > decisions: It should not ignore the Conflicts/Replaces/Provides just > > because there's a newer version of preview-latex available. > > There may be ways of improving it, but I guess I'm missing the problem > here -- it couldn't figure out how to upgrade auctex without breaking > other software, so it held it back instead.
Ah, right -- this is the dependency hack that says "hey, I'm really a
newer version of this other package over --> there." I may have to think
a bit on how to handle this. ("install the replacer" is all well and good,
but what if doing that leads to more problems? The resolver machinery will
need to understand what's going on more deeply)
Daniel
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
