Bug#520844: evince: ghostscript as a recommends

2009-04-23 Thread Michael S. Gilbert
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:31:44 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Maybe if evince doesn't fail miserably if libspectre1 or other dependencies of the backends aren't found, we could exclude them from Depends and put them on Recommends, or maybe split the backends into separate packages (I

Bug#520844: evince: ghostscript as a recommends

2009-04-23 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Michael S. Gilbert wrote: recommends are now automatically installed, so this shouldn't happen too often. Except for new installs AFAIK. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#520844: evince: ghostscript as a recommends

2009-04-23 Thread Michael S. Gilbert
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:41:07 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: Michael S. Gilbert wrote: recommends are now automatically installed, so this shouldn't happen too often. Except for new installs AFAIK. i presume that a new install via debian-installer does not circumvent apt's default

Bug#520844: evince: ghostscript as a recommends

2009-04-23 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 23 avril 2009 à 15:08 -0400, Michael S. Gilbert a écrit : On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:41:07 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: Michael S. Gilbert wrote: recommends are now automatically installed, so this shouldn't happen too often. Except for new installs AFAIK. i presume

Bug#520844: evince: ghostscript as a recommends

2009-04-23 Thread Michael S. Gilbert
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:54:14 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: i presume that a new install via debian-installer does not circumvent apt's default behavior. is there any reason to think that this is not the case? It is disabled during initial installation, but even if it wasn’t, and even

Bug#520844: evince: ghostscript as a recommends

2009-04-22 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 21 avril 2009 à 19:20 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort a écrit : Maybe if evince doesn't fail miserably if libspectre1 or other dependencies of the backends aren't found, we could exclude them from Depends and put them on Recommends, or maybe split the backends into separate packages (I

Bug#520844: evince: ghostscript as a recommends

2009-04-21 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Michael Gilbert wrote: it seems like ghostscript support in evince is a bonus feature (rather a core component). it would be nice if the libgs8 dependency were treated as recommends instead of a depends. this is especially poignant Where have you seen such a dependency? signature.asc

Bug#520844: evince: ghostscript as a recommends

2009-04-21 Thread Michael S. Gilbert
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:49:57 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: Michael Gilbert wrote: it seems like ghostscript support in evince is a bonus feature (rather a core component). it would be nice if the libgs8 dependency were treated as recommends instead of a depends. this is especially

Bug#520844: evince: ghostscript as a recommends

2009-04-21 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Michael S. Gilbert wrote: On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:49:57 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: Michael Gilbert wrote: it seems like ghostscript support in evince is a bonus feature (rather a core component). it would be nice if the libgs8 dependency were treated as recommends instead of a

Bug#520844: evince: ghostscript as a recommends

2009-04-21 Thread Michael S. Gilbert
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:21:20 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: Michael S. Gilbert wrote: On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:49:57 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: Michael Gilbert wrote: it seems like ghostscript support in evince is a bonus feature (rather a core component). it would be nice

Bug#520844: evince: ghostscript as a recommends

2009-04-21 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Michael S. Gilbert wrote: On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:21:20 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: Michael S. Gilbert wrote: On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:49:57 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: Michael Gilbert wrote: it seems like ghostscript support in evince is a bonus feature (rather a core

Bug#520844: evince: ghostscript as a recommends

2009-03-22 Thread Michael Gilbert
package: evince severity: wishlist it seems like ghostscript support in evince is a bonus feature (rather a core component). it would be nice if the libgs8 dependency were treated as recommends instead of a depends. this is especially poignant since i like to remove vulnerable packages from my