Package: gs-common Version: 8.70~dfsg-2 Severity: normal According to its description and content, gs-common is a dummy package, but it cannot be removed because ghostscript depends on it:
,---- | % aptitude show gs-common | Package: gs-common | State: installed | Automatically installed: yes | Version: 8.70~dfsg-2 | Priority: extra | Section: text | Maintainer: Masayuki Hatta (mhatta) <[email protected]> | Uncompressed Size: 102k | Depends: ghostscript | Provided by: ghostscript | Description: Dummy package depending on ghostscript | This dummy package is provided for a smooth transition from the previous | gs-.../gs-common combo (the packages are replaced by ghostscript). | Homepage: http://www.ghostscript.com/ | | % aptitude why gs-common | i gv Depends ghostscript-x | i A ghostscript-x Depends ghostscript (= 8.70~dfsg-2) | i A ghostscript Depends gs-common (>= 8.63.dfsg.1-1) `---- Although ghostscript provides gs-common, that does not help since versioned provides are not implemented in dpkg. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30.4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages gs-common depends on: ii ghostscript 8.70~dfsg-2 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF gs-common recommends no packages. gs-common suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
