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
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