On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 06:15:19PM +0200, Luca Capello wrote: > Package: xpdf > Version: 3.02-10 > Severity: important > > Hi there! > > I guess there is something wrong with the transition from > xpdf-[common|reader|utils] to xpdf. Indeed, both xpdf-reader and > xpdf-utils have an appropriate dummy transitional package, while > xpdf-common does not. Or, better, it had it, but then it was removed > when trying to solve #589425. Please note that the problem is exactly > the same as Adrian Bunk (cc:ed) suggested in: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=589425#20
It's not exactly the same. >... > First, the new xpdf package overwrite files belonging to the old > xpdf-common package, and while this seems to be OK, it should be avoided > (given that this is a simple transition). Overwriting the files is correct, and anyway not easily avoidable. > Second, the xpdf-common package is left installed and it is not > automatically removed, which means that the other configuration files in > /etc/xpdf (xpdfrc-arabic, xpdfrc-cyrillic, xpdfrc-greek, xpdfrc-hebrew, > xpdfrc-latin2, xpdfrc-thai and xpdfrc-turkish) are left installed as > well, with the user noticing nothing about that. > > The correct solution is to also provide a transitional xpdf-common > package, please do that. >... I'd say the xpdf package should get a conflict with xpdf-common to force its removal. Is there any situation where this wouldn't solve anything you describe? cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org