Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
preview-latex is now part of auctex. Technically, this is implemented by using the documented triple incantation "Conflicts/Replaces/Provides: preview-latex". What else should a package do to take over an existing one? Should the fact that there is a newer version of preview-latex also available (which could well be a not-yet-done security update or similar) really have the consequence that nothing is done instead? Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
