-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 02:44:22PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >According to its description and content, gs-common is a dummy package, >but it cannot be removed because ghostscript depends on it:
Ghostscript packaging was cleaned up prior to Lenny, but many packages still depended on the various transitional packages - some of them versioned, requiring those packages to be kept around. Late in the development of Lenny a complex cornercase was discovered (I do not remember the bugnumber - please post it to this bugreport if someone remember it) which was worked around using the current ugly build-dependency (if I recall correctly). It might be safe to drop the package now after the release of Lenny, but I would prefer to play safe and postpone till after the release of Lenny+1. Thanks anyway for filing a bugreport about this issue, so that it is properly tracked. I-ve added a note in the debian/rules file of the ghostscript packaging (have a look there for all the quirks currently in play, and when I consider it safe to drop them). Kind regards, - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJKd2NZAAoJECx8MUbBoAEhhqsP/0DEyAo55hs7Oy/O0XKqJX/i Gq/21y1iUplGGnT1ZE44uLJap/qp7G1GUQ2B6S7X44a+OjhLJWUUjquRW4MAdlTE 0QAza8Tsbqq0+kV4bZ5nw7ix8u7QfZFahMOqChNi6xfyQzRKb5vS3NY9iwQDmVk8 10UAtHEshq45eijaLPLaPrOjRfXkDvf857Iv14MZgEnJ+w1sHHjPXgvaYtRWfoan NxfvM8YsTSu5NaYvWL0nf+BwpM9E65+BsGkOV/cTEsJyNWD2Rggyhn1n/HwU9TSk 0HYb4GQMosstZSekG2wnSQ03h4Oj5uAPKUlAQhoAt8/kQ51Tu1RQcmM6zZogoLtN NwULhVFL6d2lEKnJPFE2tFbGpAFN8AiI8vC6nYMtQNUaVDTCxgkoodG8bySNApVh FLi4NcpLLaDkTAYTSR+o1049zB4wwa6UikZrGlZP2/cZFUTGaqmczEq6zwR3aOUR PCtFIwUajohRjkwXQ0Q2Wy/D5lJG0fifskybUkpl5q1hv0NIPmlU89IfjJdM8nBn 5b+7ljgEoTbDSumr/B24DXdUyyvfNKlk2u9b9bwB+uHSS+45bRA26SkV51qe77ug shqGFy485e0AiXmamuhux1iJOiM5QlFK5bKgyqLjC82IusrjX1RxvlylGmZ1xDFZ 6E3s9Xf+0PRzpPmMVhxD =fR7x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
