Celejar wrote on 10/24/17 15:09: > On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 08:52:46 +0200 > Jörg-Volker Peetz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I forgot that you showed the dependency on cups-filters in your original >> mail. >> On testing cups-filters 1.17.9-1 does not depend on imagemagick, it only >> recommends it. And I use APT::Install-Recommends "false"; in >> /etc/apt/apt.conf. >> Therefore, on this system imagemagick could be removed. > > Interesting, thanks. So they changed the dependency from 'depends' to > 'recommends', but they're still 'recommending' a dummy package.
Taking another look at package imagemagick-6.q16 (version 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16) it states that it provides imagemagick. Therefore, I don't understand what's going on on your system and there's nothing wrong with package cups-filters, I think. Regards, jvp.

