Bug#520844: evince: ghostscript as a recommends
Michael S. Gilbert
michael.s.gilbert at gmail.com
Tue Apr 21 16:01:52 UTC 2009
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:21:20 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> Michael S. Gilbert wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:49:57 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> >> Michael Gilbert wrote:
> >>> it seems like ghostscript support in evince is a bonus feature (rather
> >>> a core component). it would be nice if the libgs8 dependency were
> >>> treated as recommends instead of a depends. this is especially poignant
> >> Where have you seen such a dependency?
> >
> > the very last item in the dependency list:
>
> I don't get that, nor does packages.debian.org.
>
> Is that package from the archive, or am I going crazy?
opps, those were etch's evince dependencies. the real problem is the
dependency on libspectre1, which in turn depends on libgs8.
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