On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 07:31:33PM +0200, Luca Capello wrote: >... > On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:22:27 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 06:15:19PM +0200, Luca Capello wrote: > >> 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. > > Conceptually, yes: > > - xpdf-reader was merged in xpdf, thus the old xpdf-reader package must > Depends: on xpdf. > > - xpdf-common was merged in xpdf, thus the old xpdf-common package must > Depends: on xpdf. > > I do not see any differences in the two situations above. >...
You miss the different positions in the dependency chain: xpdf-reader depending on xpdf is required, since the xpdf program moved this way. There is no point in installing xpdf on a system that had xpdf-common only as a dependency of xpdf-utils for cups installed. > Thx, bye, > Gismo / Luca 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