[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] cups-filters, imagemagick and graphicsmagick

[Till Kamppeter]

On 12/28/2015 07:53 PM, Yann Dirson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I noticed the latest cups-filters added a versionned dependencies on
> imagemagick, as having graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat installed,
> the latter could not be used any more as a replacement for imagemagick.
>
> I'm not sure what the graphicsmagick status is, but regardless, the
> versionned display may be a bit too strong a dependency, especially as
> it seems only the users needing to convert files into Braille will
> need this dependency.  Wouldn't it be enough to leave the unversionned
> dependency as it was, and to add a versionned recommendation instead ?
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Yann
>

I have already done a first step, separating the Braille support into 
its own binary package as only very few users need it.

The package is named "cups-filters-braille" and the change is on 
Debian's GIT repository of the cups-filters package. It will get 
available with the next Debian release of cups-filters, either 1.5.0-1 
or 1.6.0-1.

But in general, improving the dependencies by demoting the versioning to 
a Recommends: or doing an OR dependency with graphicsmagick we should 
get rid of pulling in X, as X is useless for blind people. Let us 
discuss this on the Debian-printing at lists.debian.org now, which I have 
added.

    Till