On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 10:56:25AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 14 oct 21, 13:47:22, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 01:51:07PM -0300, Victor Hugo Muñoz wrote: > > > And it looks that this worked! You were right, I had not the latest > > > version, so I upgraded dpkg, and yes, texlive-base passed the > > > installation without errors. > > > > Is this considered a bug in texlive-base, i.e. that it should contain a > > Pre-Depends: on a specific version of dpkg? Or is it the case that *all* > > of the packages in bookworm are going to have this issue, and so they're > > not going to bother with a Pre-Depends: in every single package, but > > instead will handle the dist-upgrade in some other way? > > Packages are not allowed to use dpkg features that are not present in > stable. > > In this particular case, according to the changelog 'dpkg' introduced > that feature in 1.20.6, while stable already has 1.20.9.
Huh, interesting. So the OP's problem arose because they're running post-bullseye unstable or testing, with pre-bullseye dpkg? Gah. Why do people do things like this to themselves....
