Re: [biebl@debian.org: Plans for gs-esp / gs-gpl / gs-afpl in lenny?]

[Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com>]

I have worked out the packaging of the current "ghostscript" Ubuntu 
package with the Debian maintainer of Ghostscript, Masayuki Hatta. We 
agreed especially on the name "ghostscript" because it is much easier 
for search functions to find "ghostscript" than to find "gs".

"ghostscript" is obsoleting all old Ghostscript flavors: gs-esp, gs-gpl, 
gs-afpl, ... as it unifies all their special characteristics: Totally 
free software, latest and greatest Ghostscript developemnt, CUPS, IJS, 
and OpenPrinting Vector interfaces, all built-in and UPP drivers.

So for Debian the easiest solution is simply rebuilding this Ubuntu package.

   Till

Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject:
> Plans for gs-esp / gs-gpl / gs-afpl in lenny?
> From:
> Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
> Date:
> Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:09:05 +0200
> To:
> debian-devel@lists.debian.org
>
> To:
> debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> CC:
> Masayuki Hatta <mhatta@grad.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp>, Kenshi Muto 
> <kmuto@debian.org>, Torsten Landschoff <torsten@debian.org>, Jonas 
> Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
>
>
> 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.
>
> 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 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.
>
> 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