Bug#613912: ghostscript ships its own fonts in libgs9-common, additionally depends on gsfonts

[Fabian Greffrath <fabian@greffrath.com>]

Am Freitag, den 18.02.2011, 12:51 +0100 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard:
> That's what I am talking about: The Ghostscript project includes all 
> needed resources as part of a single tarball instead of as isolated 
> chunks.

Indeed, I understood your initial response the other way round. ;)

> Debian has a different objective.  And I believe it is better to track 
> them as a separate entity - a separate upstream project.  Even if it 
> might turn out that the current canonical upstream source for a while is 
> that same tarball which also holds Ghostscript.  Because that might very 
> well change again in the future!

There is a lot of motion currently in the thread that I sent you the
link to. Ghostscript is currently even considering reverting back to the
original URW++ fonts, but maybe they adopt the Text Gyre fonts or merge
the latest urwcyr release. We will see.

However, I think the fonts should be split into a separate package and
libgs9-common should depend on either this or gsfonts.

 - Fabian