Bug#384231: [Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#384231: Please remove dependency to gnome-gv

[Christian Hammers]

On 2006-08-23 Yavor Doganov wrote:
> Christian Hammers wrote:
> > 
> > gnome-gv is dead, replaced by evince and removed soon. Please remove
> > any remaining depends/suggests to it.
> 
> Well, for us this is not a reason for package removal, otherwise half
> of GNUstep ought to be removed since many GNUstep apps are more or
> less dead ;-)
Then I guess we will have a lot of fun if anybody finds grave security
bugs in GNUstep and there is no upstream left who can fix it :)
 
> Perhaps you could orphan it instead of asking for removal?  
If it would be something more important or at least unique, then maybe, 
but it's only a tiny .ps renderer and most users really don't care how
it's called if it just works..

> Are there
> any serious problems with gnome-gv?  I haven't tried Evince from
> experimental, but I'm still using gnome-gv at work since there are
> some nasty rendering bugs in Evince that appear with some weird
> documents.
There are no serious bugs it's just that evince is much better (can search
for text) and there shouldn't be rendering differences as both use ghostscript
underneath.
Can you send me the URL of such a document? Maybe we can get evince fixed :)

bye,

-christian-