Re: texlive-binaries depends on 2 versions of a library

From	harryweaver@tutanota.com
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Subject	Re: texlive-binaries depends on 2 versions of a library
Date	2022-02-09 20:10 +0100
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10 Feb 2022, 01:51 by urs@isnogud.escape.de:

> To me this looks somewhat surprising that in Debian buster a package
> depends on 2 versions of a library:
>
> # apt-cache depends texlive-binaries |grep lua
>  Depends: libtexlua52
>  Depends: libtexlua52
>  Depends: libtexlua53
>  Depends: libtexlua53
>  Depends: libtexluajit2
>  Depends: libtexluajit2
>  Breaks: <luatex>
>  Replaces: <luatex>
>
> Is that really intended that it depends on both, libtexlua52 and
> libtexlua53?
>

I wouldn't say it was a permanent arrangement, and this is just a stage of transition in development.
At present, texlive has dependencies from within both.
Eventually, one of these will disappear during an upgrade.
It may be worth an enquiry to the TUG:

https://tug.org/texlive/

I shouldn't think this would be Debian specific.
Cheers!

Harry

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texlive-binaries depends on 2 versions of a library Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de> - 2022-02-09 17:00 +0100
  Re: texlive-binaries depends on 2 versions of a library Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-02-09 17:10 +0100
  Re: texlive-binaries depends on 2 versions of a library David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-02-09 18:10 +0100
  Re: texlive-binaries depends on 2 versions of a library harryweaver@tutanota.com - 2022-02-09 20:10 +0100

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