[This goes to debian-devel only.] Raul Miller writes: Raul> It does look like dvips was superceeded by some other package, and Raul> that it did originally have some executables in it.
Nils switched to the upstream convention of reflecting the 'k' for Karl Berry's kpathsea in the package name. I had moaned about this weeks ago. You have to manually delete dvips after installing dvipsk, xdvi after xdvik etc. A "Conflicts:" in debian.control might have helped here. Or a new "Replaces:" field. Raul> /usr/bin/fort77 is a perl script, the only other things I see in this Raul> package are a man page and a copyright statement. Since I have f2c Raul> on my system as a separate package, I'd guess that fort77 has also Raul> been superceeded... Nope. f2c is a pain as far as the interface is concerned. fort77 is a pretty little perl beauty that gives it an f77-like interface so that you can seamlessly use Makefiles that assume you have f77. (I also linked it to f77.) [...] -- Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
