Bug#381607: [Pkg-texlive-maint] Bug#381607: textlive-common: Trying to overwrite file that is also in texlive-doc-base

[Micah Anderson]

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Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi Micah!
> 
> On Mon, 07 Aug 2006, Micah Anderson wrote:
>>> Upgrades from -1 are not supported, -1 were experimental packages.
>> I do not recall installing texlive-doc-base from experimental, however,
>> I do not see where else I could have gotten it from, as I don't see -1
>> uploaded to unstable ever.
> 
> At second thought I am quite suprised what has happened at your place.
> Can you tell me (I know that is too late now) WHAT packages of texlive
> 2005-1 you had installed?!

Unfortunately, I can't now with any degree of certainty, but I am pretty
sure I had these two:

texlive-common					
texlive-doc-base				

>>> Next version will have the preinst code for upgrade in all packages.
>> Great, I'm glad something good came out of this, instead of me just
>> wasting your time :)
> 
> The funny thing that I checked now and the code is already in all
> packages, so I am really suprised that no preinst script actually hit
> the warning message.
> 
> My idea of what should happen in an upgrade situation was:
> - texlive-base-bin, texlive-doc-base and whatever else is installed
>   in version 2005-1
> - all of the packages are tried to be upgraded to the -2 version
> - the preinst scripts of the packages are unpacked and executed.
>   and here the warning message with the exit 1 should have happened.
> 
> Strange that it didn't.

Yeah, but now its really hard to try and figure out what happened, so
maybe someone else will experience this and be able to chime in with the
information... otherwise it can be chalked up to temporary glitch,
nothing to see here... :)

Micah
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