On Mon, 2 Sep 1996, Anton Rebhan wrote: > Repeatedly, I faced problems with a new installation and with > upgrades coming from an out-of-date Packages file and/or of > an incomplete set of packages. > I have ignored missing packages when they were just recommended > but not available. Currently, however, there is the package gs_4.01 > in /non-free, which *depends* on gsfonts (>=4.01), libpaper (>=1.0-1), > both of which are not availabe, however, in the stable tree.
I'm sure you know that both of those packages are available in the unstable tree. I don't know of a longterm solution short of duplicating the contrib and non-free trees into stable and unstable versions. Our ftp hierarchy is already too complicated. > An older version of gs, which is in /buzz and which would do with > the existing gsfonts package, cannot be installed, because dselect > picks only the newest version. It seems overloading the gs name is causing problems. Joost, the maintainer of both gs's, offered several times to rename them to gnu-gs and alladin-gs and let them conflict. Perhaps this needs to be done. Ian? > Perhaps it would be possible to automatically generate up-to-date > Packages files That is already done, once a day. > and to automatically check whether all the packages > others depend on are really there. An automatic dependency check would be useful. Guy
