Bug#539754: gs-common: dummy package or not?
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
Bug#539754: gs-common: dummy package or not?
-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
Bug#539754: gs-common: dummy package or not?
Package: gs-common Version: 8.70~dfsg-2 Severity: normal According to its description and content, gs-common is a dummy package, but it cannot be removed because ghostscript depends on it: , | % aptitude show gs-common | Package: gs-common | State: installed | Automatically installed: yes | Version: 8.70~dfsg-2 | Priority: extra | Section: text | Maintainer: Masayuki Hatta (mhatta) mha...@debian.org | Uncompressed Size: 102k | Depends: ghostscript | Provided by: ghostscript | Description: Dummy package depending on ghostscript | This dummy package is provided for a smooth transition from the previous | gs-.../gs-common combo (the packages are replaced by ghostscript). | Homepage: http://www.ghostscript.com/ | | % aptitude why gs-common | i gvDepends ghostscript-x | i A ghostscript-x Depends ghostscript (= 8.70~dfsg-2) | i A ghostscript Depends gs-common (= 8.63.dfsg.1-1) ` Although ghostscript provides gs-common, that does not help since versioned provides are not implemented in dpkg. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30.4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages gs-common depends on: ii ghostscript 8.70~dfsg-2 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF gs-common recommends no packages. gs-common suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#539754: gs-common: dummy package or not?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 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. Late in the development of Lenny a complex cornercase was discovered (I do not remember the bugnumber - please post it to this bugreport if someone remember it) which was worked around using the current ugly build-dependency (if I recall correctly). It might be safe to drop the package now after the release of Lenny, but I would prefer to play safe and postpone till after the release of Lenny+1. Thanks anyway for filing a bugreport about this issue, so that it is properly tracked. I-ve added a note in the debian/rules file of the ghostscript packaging (have a look there for all the quirks currently in play, and when I consider it safe to drop them). 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) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJKd2NZAAoJECx8MUbBoAEhhqsP/0DEyAo55hs7Oy/O0XKqJX/i Gq/21y1iUplGGnT1ZE44uLJap/qp7G1GUQ2B6S7X44a+OjhLJWUUjquRW4MAdlTE 0QAza8Tsbqq0+kV4bZ5nw7ix8u7QfZFahMOqChNi6xfyQzRKb5vS3NY9iwQDmVk8 10UAtHEshq45eijaLPLaPrOjRfXkDvf857Iv14MZgEnJ+w1sHHjPXgvaYtRWfoan NxfvM8YsTSu5NaYvWL0nf+BwpM9E65+BsGkOV/cTEsJyNWD2Rggyhn1n/HwU9TSk 0HYb4GQMosstZSekG2wnSQ03h4Oj5uAPKUlAQhoAt8/kQ51Tu1RQcmM6zZogoLtN NwULhVFL6d2lEKnJPFE2tFbGpAFN8AiI8vC6nYMtQNUaVDTCxgkoodG8bySNApVh FLi4NcpLLaDkTAYTSR+o1049zB4wwa6UikZrGlZP2/cZFUTGaqmczEq6zwR3aOUR PCtFIwUajohRjkwXQ0Q2Wy/D5lJG0fifskybUkpl5q1hv0NIPmlU89IfjJdM8nBn 5b+7ljgEoTbDSumr/B24DXdUyyvfNKlk2u9b9bwB+uHSS+45bRA26SkV51qe77ug shqGFy485e0AiXmamuhux1iJOiM5QlFK5bKgyqLjC82IusrjX1RxvlylGmZ1xDFZ 6E3s9Xf+0PRzpPmMVhxD =fR7x -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
