Bug#613580: libgs9: please Recommends: (not Depends:) gs-cjk-resource

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

clone 613580 -1
retitle -1 gs-cjk-resource: please clarify font and cmap dependencies
reassign -1 gs-cjk-resource 1.20100103-2
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Hi,

Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 09:27:59PM +0100, Luca Capello wrote:

>> PS2, gs-cjk-resource needs two packages to be fully functional:
>>     cmap-adobe-* and ttf-*, but only the former are listed as
>>     Recommends:, with the latter being only as Suggests:, which is IMHO
>>     a bug, both should be at the same level, according to the
>>     Description:...
>
> I agree that there are issues with the gs-cjk-resource package. It
> is plural issues: also one of or'ing the relationships for the
> multiple CJK supportive areas instead of declaring them
> independently.  I have encouraged the maintainer to move it to
> co-maintainance at the Debian Printing Team with the intend of
> helping weed out things like that myself, but have not yet heard
> back on that proposal.  I have not yet been bothered enough to file
> bugreports yet (for some weird reason I find it more bothersome to
> file bugreports than to fully package code and maintain it for
> years).

cc-ing the gs-cjk-resource maintainers.  Please see
http://bugs.debian.org/613580 for background.

Thanks,
Jonathan