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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