Bug#423143: texlive-lang-polish post-install script fails to finish

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Pawel Maczewski <pjmacz@op.pl> wrote:

> Upgrading texlive-base to 2007-5 version prior to installing
> texlife-lang-polish seemed to help. Not sure, maybe should this version be
> marked as required for this package?

The interdependencies between individual texlive packages are provided
by upstream, which generally do not support upgrading.  

This means that we either have to accept this problem, advising people
to not do partial upgrades.  Or we have to add code in our packaging
scripts; adding versions to the depends of a particular package (like
tl-lang-polish in this case) would probably be *very* hard, so this
would mean to have something like ( > $upstream_version) for each and
every dependency of a texlive package on an other texlive package.  

Looks like navigating between Scylla and Charybdis...

Regards, Frank

-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)