Hello,

Versioned Provides are now supported, so graphicsmagick can just Provide
the appropriate version of imagemagick.

Yuri D'Elia, on lun. 29 mai 2017 01:10:04 +0200, wrote:
> cups-filters depends on imagemagik for "convert" alone, and it's used only in:
> 
>  /var/lib/cups/filter/imagetobrf
>  /var/lib/cups/filter/texttobrf
> 
> Both usage of convert are absolutely trivial, and graphicsmagick can fulfil
> both without problems.

Sure, then the versioned alternative will be fine.

> Please note that I do not want to dismiss braille support here. I'd rather see
> braille filters split into a separate package where we can properly Depend on
> the required tools instead.

I don't see the point: we'd still want to recommend that package, so
it's installed by default without making it a requirement. Just keeping
it inside the cups-filter package gets the same dependencies in the end,
while keeping things simpler.

Samuel

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