Bug#872013: texlive-science-doc: Upgrading from texlive-math-extra causes conflict

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi RUssell,


> During the process of updating some texlive packages, I ended up in a situation
> where a package was trying to overwrite a file from another texlive package.

Not good.

> I'm not sure what the correct process is here, but should texlive-science
> conflict with texlive-math-extra so that this can't happen?

Not conflict, but replace. This is missing. Will be added for the next
release.

> I did get into this situation by running an apt-get install command to try and
> only upgrade a few texlive packages without updating everything.  So using apt-
> get upgrade may have avoided this situation?  I don't really know.

Well, that is not really supported, but still it is a bug that should be fixed.
You should be forced to update all texlive packages in one go.

Thanks and all the best

Norbert

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