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
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