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Re: Error installing texlive-base

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On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 10:56:25AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Jo, 14 oct 21, 13:47:22, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 01:51:07PM -0300, Victor Hugo Muñoz wrote:
> > > And it looks that this worked! You were right, I had not the latest
> > > version, so I upgraded dpkg, and yes, texlive-base passed the
> > > installation without errors.
> > 
> > Is this considered a bug in texlive-base, i.e. that it should contain a
> > Pre-Depends: on a specific version of dpkg?  Or is it the case that *all*
> > of the packages in bookworm are going to have this issue, and so they're
> > not going to bother with a Pre-Depends: in every single package, but
> > instead will handle the dist-upgrade in some other way?
> 
> Packages are not allowed to use dpkg features that are not present in 
> stable.
> 
> In this particular case, according to the changelog 'dpkg' introduced 
> that feature in 1.20.6, while stable already has 1.20.9.

Huh, interesting.  So the OP's problem arose because they're running
post-bullseye unstable or testing, with pre-bullseye dpkg?  Gah.  Why
do people do things like this to themselves....

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Error installing texlive-base Victor Hugo Muñoz <victor_munoz@uchile.cl> - 2021-10-14 17:20 +0200
  Re: Error installing texlive-base The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-10-14 17:30 +0200
    Re: Error installing texlive-base Victor Hugo Muñoz <victor_munoz@uchile.cl> - 2021-10-14 18:40 +0200
      Re: Error installing texlive-base David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-10-14 19:10 +0200
      Re: Error installing texlive-base Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-10-15 10:10 +0200
        Re: Error installing texlive-base Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2021-10-15 21:30 +0200
  Re: Error installing texlive-base "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-10-14 17:30 +0200
    Re: Error installing texlive-base Victor Hugo Muñoz <victor_munoz@uchile.cl> - 2021-10-14 19:00 +0200
      Re: Error installing texlive-base harryweaver@tutanota.com - 2021-10-14 19:20 +0200
  Re: Error installing texlive-base David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-10-14 18:40 +0200
    Re: Error installing texlive-base Victor Hugo Muñoz <victor_munoz@uchile.cl> - 2021-10-14 19:10 +0200
      Re: Error installing texlive-base Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-14 19:50 +0200
        Re: Error installing texlive-base Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-10-15 10:00 +0200
          Re: Error installing texlive-base Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-15 13:40 +0200
            Re: Error installing texlive-base Victor Hugo Muñoz <victor_munoz@uchile.cl> - 2021-10-15 16:00 +0200
              Re: Error installing texlive-base Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-10-18 01:30 +0200
                Re: Error installing texlive-base Victor Hugo Muñoz <victor_munoz@uchile.cl> - 2021-10-18 15:20 +0200

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