Hi fons, On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:02 AM, <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: <snip> > Replacing is allowed only if the major version > number stays the same (which implies the lib > will be compatible with the one it replaces). > > The only alternative to this is making sure that > updated versions of all apps are made available > as soon as the new library is used by any of them, > and this is clearly impossible. Actually, the new libpng/libjpeg was in [testing] for a couple of weeks while rebuilds were done for every single application in the official repos (including [community] and [community-testing]). They were all moved to [core],[extra], and [community] at the same time. So no, it is not impossible, though very difficult. The devs/TUs have done it. > > I'm pretty sure that at the moment a system update > or even complete fresh install including texlive, > emacs and gnuplot will have the latter two not > working. The most recent versions (as of writing) > require different libraries. > > So, apparently there is no solution. This would be a bug. I'm pretty sure the most recent versions for all work though, unless your mirror is only partially updated. Haven't had any problems here (though I don't use those specific apps).
