Re: Ensuring complete upgrades in applications with multiple binary packages

2007-05-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 04:28:39PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > B. texlive-common could declare > Conflicts: >But how would that work upon upgrade? Very, very poorly. Versioned conflicts are advocated against in Policy 7.3, because the package manager will often find it easier to remove t

Re: Ensuring complete upgrades in applications with multiple binary packages

2007-05-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 15 mai 2007 à 16:28 +0200, Frank Küster a écrit : > TeX Live is one big thing upstream (one DVD) and has been split for > Debian packaging into one arch:any and four arch:all source packages > with numerous binary packages each. Generally, you cannot assume a > system to work properly whi

Ensuring complete upgrades in applications with multiple binary packages

2007-05-15 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, we've run across a problem with our texlive packages, and I'd like to get some opinions, in particular regarding dpkg behavior. TeX Live is one big thing upstream (one DVD) and has been split for Debian packaging into one arch:any and four arch:all source packages with numerous binary package