On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 08:28:46 -0400 The Wanderer <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2017-10-29 at 07:49, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > > > 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. > > My guess involves vague memories of there being an issue with versioned > Provides: - although I thought that was more "you can't Provides: a > specific version", not "a versioned Depends: won't be satisfied by a > Provides: from a package with a suitable version number". I don't understand this stuff well enough to add anything to the conversation. All I know is that I still can't remove imagemagick despite the fact that imagemagick-6.q16 "Provides:" imagemagick. Celejar
