[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#533186: Bug#533186: Bug not fixed, sorry

[Josselin Mouette]

Le jeudi 18 juin 2009 à 19:50 +0200, Till Kamppeter a écrit :
> > AFAIK only certain printers depend on ghostscript-cups.  Till can
> > correct me if I'm wrong.
> 
> Yes, that's it. ghostscript-cups contains the pdftoraster, pstoraster, 
> and pstopxl filters and PPDs for the pstopxl filter. It is only needed 
> for CUPS Raster drivers. Therefore the CUPS Raster driver packages of 
> Ubuntu (splix, cups-driver-gutenprint, hplip-cups) depend on this 
> package. Also lsb depends on this package as the LSB standardizes the 
> CUPS Raster driver interface. Debian should also make these packages 
> require ghostscript-cups. The cups package only recommends 
> ghostscript-cups, as it is not always needed, for example if PostScript 
> printers or printers with built-in Ghostscript drivers are used, this 
> package is not needed.

Sure, if only the affected drivers need to depend on ghostscript-cups,
it’s fine to put the dependency that way. But currently it is not here.

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