Many thanks for your response. Obviously, you are not having the
problem I am having.
But I would not be making this bug report unless
`apt-get dist-upgrade' and `apt-get -f install' were
telling me all is well, yet I cannot then install boot-floppies.
This is the problem: there is something wrong, either in the
documentation that leads me to think all should be well when
`apt-get dist-upgrade' and `apt-get -f install' both claim all
is well, or else in `apt-get install boot-floppies', which fails.
If you want to build boot-floppies, you have to install tetex. If you
cannot install tetex, that is a bug in tetex, not boot-floppies.
I agree tetex-bin has a bug and have sent them a reminder. But the
bug extends to you.
... Although there is no way it is holding up boot-floppies
considering *every* (and that means all 6) one of the archs releasing with
potato have built boot-floppies 2.2.15. They are in the archive, go check.
So, it is not holding up anything.
This is false. I cannot install tetex-bin and I cannot install
boot-floppies using
apt-get install boot-floppies
on a system that otherwise says:
# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back
communicator gedit gnumeric netscape
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
and also says;
# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
So this is a bug. I should be able to install boot-floppies using
apt-get in these circumstances. (If tetex is required for
boot-floppies, then it has to install sucessfully also.)
*You* may be able to install boot-floppies without tetex-bin, or with
a version that is not what is used by apt-get on frozen. But that is
a different matter.
I cannot, and I am following the proper procedure as *it is
described*. (If I misunderstood the procedure, that is a bug, since I
have done a fair and reasonable job of doing things right. Well, more
than `a fair and reasonable job', but I won't go into that.)
It looks to me that you do not experience this bug, which makes it
hard for you to appreciate the problem. But the point is, a
reasonable user (that's me) cannot install boot-floppies. There needs
to be a solution, and not one of `blaming the user'; I am not one to
blame.
I have sent a bug report to the tetex-bin maintainers. But your
problem is that with a configuration that apt-get says is OK,
boot-floppies does not install. This is your problem. It is an
unhappy dependency.
I have gone to `the archive' as you suggest -- that is what apt-get
does, right? If not, then the documentation for using apt-get has a
bug and needs to be revised to tell me to specify some place else than
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian frozen main contrib non-free
in my /etc/apt/sources.list file.
Please figure out how to fix things so
apt-get install boot-floppies
works successfully when both dist-upgrade' and `apt-get -f install'
claim all is well.
Thank you.
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Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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