[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#532922: ghostscript-cups only recommends cups since 8.64~dfsg-13

[Roger Leigh]

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 01:02:34PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks to your earlier comment in this bug, Martin I discovered a bug in 
> the packaging of ghostscript-cups, and it now behaves as intended: It 
> only recommends (not depends on) cups.
> 
> I agree with your other point, though: cups really should only recommend 
> ghostscript-cups (even if it now does _not_ create_ circular dependency 
> to tighten up).
> 
> So now cups _can_ depend on ghostscript-cups, but still _shouldn't_.
> 
> 
> Till Kamppeter mentioned in some email that it might make sense for cups 
> raster backends to depend on ghostscript-cups.
> 
> Perhaps it make sense to reopen this bug and track that closely related 
> issue here?

I think separate bugs need opening against all the raster
backends without the ghostscript-cups dependency.  You
can then make this bug block on them all.


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