On 12/28/2015 07:53 PM, Yann Dirson wrote:
Hello, I noticed the latest cups-filters added a versionned dependencies on imagemagick, as having graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat installed, the latter could not be used any more as a replacement for imagemagick. I'm not sure what the graphicsmagick status is, but regardless, the versionned display may be a bit too strong a dependency, especially as it seems only the users needing to convert files into Braille will need this dependency. Wouldn't it be enough to leave the unversionned dependency as it was, and to add a versionned recommendation instead ? Best regards, -- Yann
I have already done a first step, separating the Braille support into its own binary package as only very few users need it.
The package is named "cups-filters-braille" and the change is on Debian's GIT repository of the cups-filters package. It will get available with the next Debian release of cups-filters, either 1.5.0-1 or 1.6.0-1.
But in general, improving the dependencies by demoting the versioning to a Recommends: or doing an OR dependency with graphicsmagick we should get rid of pulling in X, as X is useless for blind people. Let us discuss this on the Debian-printing@lists.debian.org now, which I have added.
Till