-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 09:12:37AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >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.
I seem to recall that it was related to a corner case of ghostscript being auto-removed during upgrade. I cannot explain it in more detail, because I do not recall the actual details of the workaround being applied prior to Lenny release. 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) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJKeBHnAAoJECx8MUbBoAEhNuUP/iIjBQBBnGYgHzwqearoH2Vy qjBAI8WIPunV0D4Qy2jSuUZer0mQ8cUSWmXcpogYXlt2z0vagefl0DFKgpXTVwBi 0jwz9HCxsBwb5Fi4aicPQXXdYNpeTsZX08M+Ahr+6EEouJe612Ut0bfe12w7zHrT 6lBQ3xjlaELS7DteLg2+FCxMkQ/Xbnx3jAuHPNlAxGVnnLgnQdSfULs+3qSxmexb ZFa+k6yXfYGfe3O4WqN4eeA2YYGS65j2l6q7Yh2m8dXeaAIHV8St30/G3zRNG2S3 u8S/mozTcgmv+FBJlMF2oasSK/aY13PMc1ydiZvoZIDTvrVEP83WQq+qdslKEifx GJMC2L8y8r7+4KeVUqTC11S0dc38tCOG3TzZCcJZm98jAkhvbiR4Vaf/b7VizCCa StokRCVgFv7k91/g4HL6wnhLOUqAQoq7o6UbSyRAjwherKWGxALzFCsAaCss5VVl XQIU40t2Vryn15rGz6hNAHSh1lVKLzu5NzLvsA48/iUMSsA3QNwXgHKTtbr8myVU 9O5XKCXDR0AelbQtHRsjbzg37pqCR5tns9VORmte4WLKwOkxsabSLYRxODIJbah7 UllcQ7D0dSWYRF0E15ou+oLT6sX9sqvkqxrIF7LsJiHPkqhJV+LhhGBsHL5NpJkO b5oDcicOLWRZMqOl0JHk =msHT -----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
