On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, Matthias Kilian wrote: > Hi, > > i'm working on an update to ghostscript-9.02 (kind of emergency > update, because ajacoutot@ wants to print some google maps, which > currently causes ghostscript to segfault when called from pdf2ps). > > The good news: ghostscript-9.02 fixes the problem. > > The bad news: the pstoraster shell script is gone, now we have > gstoraster, which is compiled and linked from gstoraster.c and > depends on libcups. But ghostscript must not depend on cups (we had > a circular dependency some years ago, and after a suggestion from > bernd@ i changed ghostscript's cups driver to dlopen(3) libcups to > break the circle). > > Two questions: > > 1. I forgot which ports where involved in the circular dependencies > (it wasn't a direct cups <-> ghostscript tie); does anyone remember?
IIRC cups used to run_depends on foomatic-filters (which depends on gs). That is not the case anymore. > 2. If I put the new gstoraster program into a subpackage, depending on > cups and ghostscript (-main), would this be a problem? On the contrary, I think it would be a perfectly fine solution. -- Antoine
