[Pkg-texlive-maint] Depends and equivs package

[Norbert Preining]

On Sam, 08 Apr 2006, Christopher J. Walker wrote:
> "  But there is a hack around this: Get the deb, unpack it as follows:
> 
> This seems rather complicated, when I thought it was the problem that
> equivs was supposed to solve?

Equivs doesn't help as building a package tetex-5.0 which doesn't
contain any files will still conflict with the texlive packages.

> I presume by the way that there is  a reason that you don't want the
> texlive packages to provide tetex-bin/tetex-base.

Yes, because I don't provide them. There are too many differences in
packaged files. Maybe later, after some testing.

Furthermore, providing a real package is always a problem.

Anyway, I hope that all this is a temporary problem as all packages in
Debian will sooner or later provide alternative dependencies on texlive.

Best wishes

Norbert

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