Marcelo Magallon writes: > On 28 Feb 1997, Christoph Martin wrote: > > > > The obvious solution is to remove all TeX files conflicting with teTeX > > > before installing teTeX, but this is not "user friendly", "nice", "cool", > > > etc. > > > > You have no other chance. dpkg can't handle all (more than one) the > > replaces. > > Then, to the maintainer, PLEASE, include instructions about this unless we > want to see the question "How do I upgrade TeX?" n+1 times on > debian-user... I'm guessing something in the lines of "In dselect [R]emove > packages *first*, *then* [I]nstall them" would work, but a bit more
Where do you want to put these instructions? I have posted instructions to debian-user and debian-devel. If you put it in the preinst script it is to late. > descriptive/less cryptic. Also, isn't there a workaround for the latex > bug? I wouldn't like to see that question either, considering THERE IS a > known solution. > The only solution I know is to do it in the right order, but how do you enforce this? Christoph
