Re: Plans for gs-esp / gs-gpl / gs-afpl in lenny? -- cupsys?

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

Hi,

Thanks for this good news.

On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 12:09:05AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> recently ghostscript 8.60 was released [1] which is now available under
> the GPL.
> The features of ESP Ghostscript have been merged into Ghostscript GPL
> and the upstream of gs-esp has officially declared gs-esp obsolete [2].
> 
> The Debian gs-afpl package has been orphaned some time ago [3].
> 
> So, my question is, what the plan is for lenny with regard to all these
> different gs-* packages.

After hearing this news, the answer is simple.  All packages which use
gs-esp in its depends line need to be updated.  The most important one
is *cupsys* package which is installed in most system.

> AFAIK, Ubuntu has introduced a new package called "ghostscript" (as
> successor of gs-gpl) which supersedes gs-esp, gs-gpl and gs-afpl and
> provides dummy/transitional packages for gs-esp/gs-gpl which depend on
> the ghostscript package to ensure a smooth upgrade.

I have no preference on this issue.  I will follow others.

> I CCed the gs-* maintainers, because I'm interested to know if they
> intend to go the same route or if they have different plans and also if
> there is already a prospective time frame for such a "ghostscript" package.

I CCed cupsys maintainer who only list gs-esp as the sole choice.

> Cheers,
> Michael
> 
> 
> [1] http://www.ghostscript.com/awki
> [2] http://www.cups.org/espgs/articles.php?L463
> [3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=393923

Osamu