On 2009-08-04 00:23 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > 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.
I understand that and I did not mean to suggest dropping gs-common now, but could you please explain why ghostscript *itself* has a versioned dependency on gs-common? That is the sole reason why gs-common is still installed on my system. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
