Re: generic name for a postscript viewer virtual package ?

[gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>]

On Sun, 05 Oct 2025 20:01:39 +0200, Benoît Rouits wrote:

> I have a Debian package that currently recommends the "evince" 
> package, but I would like to make a generic recommendation for any 
> postscript viewer. Is there such a virtual package ? or should I 
> enumerate all the viewers as recommendation ? (okular, etc...)

% aptitude show postscript-viewer
No candidate version found for postscript-viewer
Package: postscript-viewer
State: not a real package
Provided by: atril (1.24.0-1+deb11u1), atril (1.26.0-2+deb12u3), 
             atril (1.26.2-4), atril (1.26.2-5+b1), atril:i386 
             (1.26.2-5+b1), evince (3.38.2-1), evince (43.1-2+b1), 
             evince (48.1-3), evince (48.1-4), ghostscript 
             (10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u7), ghostscript (10.05.1~dfsg-1), 
             ghostscript (10.05.1~dfsg-3), ghostscript 
             (10.06.0~dfsg-3), ghostscript (9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u7), 
             ghostscript:i386 (10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u7), 
             ghostscript:i386 (10.05.1~dfsg-1), ghostscript:i386 
             (10.05.1~dfsg-3), ghostscript:i386 (10.06.0~dfsg-3), 
             ghostscript:i386 (9.53.3~dfsg-7+deb11u7), gv 
             (1:3.7.4-2+b1), gv (1:3.7.4-3.1), okular (4:20.12.3-2), 
             okular (4:22.12.3-1), okular (4:25.04.2-1), okular 
             (4:25.04.2-1+b1), qpdfview-ps-plugin (0.4.18-5), 
             qpdfview-ps-plugin (0.5.0+ds-2), qpdfview-ps-plugin 
             (0.5.0+ds-5+b1), zathura-ps (0.2.6-1), zathura-ps 
             (0.2.7-2+b1), zathura-ps (0.2.8-1)


Cheers,
gregor

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