Bug#334701: can't install tetex-bin 2.0.2-31 due to /usr/share/man/man1/texi2pdf.1.gz

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 19.10.05 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org> wrote:

Hi,

> > I can't install tetex-bin 2.0.2-31 (from testing) due to the following
> > error:
> >
> > Unpacking tetex-bin (from .../tetex-bin_2.0.2-31_i386.deb) ...
> > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-bin_2.0.2-31_i386.deb (--unpack):
> >  trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/texi2pdf.1.gz', which is also in package texinfo
> 
> The file was in tetex-bin until version 2.0.2-31, now it is in
> texinfo. We didn't consider the situation where texinfo (>=4.8) is
> installed before tetex-bin, and I'm not even sure what the correct
> solution would have been; maybe a conflicts is needed in the
> texinfo package.
> 
> Since tetex-bin in unstable doesn't have the file, the bug exists only
> in testing, and can only be solved when tetex-bin_3.0 gets into testing.
> 
So, why not tag that bug sarge and leave it as it is? It will be
solved as soon as teTeX 3.0 hits testing.

H.
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