Bug#520844: evince: ghostscript as a recommends

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Wed Apr 22 09:31:44 UTC 2009


Le mardi 21 avril 2009 à 19:20 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort a écrit :
> Maybe if evince doesn't fail miserably if libspectre1 or other dependencies of
> the backends aren't found, we could exclude them from Depends and put them on
> Recommends, or maybe split the backends into separate packages (I don't like
> this). Downgrading them to recommends sounds better, but we should find a way to
> autogenerate the recommends, maybe running dpkg-shlibdeps for
> usr/lib/evince/backends and placing the result in Recommends (not sure if this
> would be possible).

Although this would work, we would get gazillions of bug reports saying
that evince cannot read PS documents.

No, thanks.
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