Bug#823110: cups-filters: Versioned dependency on imagemagick makes using graphicsmagick harder

[Marc Donges <marc.donges@gmail.com>]

Package: cups-filters
Version: 1.8.3-2+b1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

recent versions of cups-filters have a versioned dependency on imagemagick.

The relevant changelog is this:

  * Added dependencies on imagemagick (>= 6.4~), liblouisutdml-bin, and                                                                                                                          ▒
    poppler-utils to cups-filters, as they are needed to convert images, text,                                                                                                                   ▒
    and PDF to Braille, added antiword and docx2txt to Suggests: as they allow                                                                                                                   ▒
    converting Word files to Braille                                                                                                                                                             ▒
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 -- Didier Raboud <odyx@debian.org>  Tue, 15 Dec 2015 11:04:23 +0100                                                                                                                             ▒

There is an alternative to imagemagick, graphicsmagick, with compatibility binaries in the package graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat, that make it possible to call its tools like imagemagick.

Your versioned dependency makes it impossible to install the compatibility package, because only the original imagemagick can strictly fulfill ">= 6.4~". Please consider changing this so graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat can fulfill the dependency, for example by or-ing it into the list with an appropriate version.

Thank you!


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (745, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (400, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages cups-filters depends on:
ii  bc                         1.06.95-9+b1
ii  cups-filters-core-drivers  1.8.3-2+b1
ii  ghostscript                9.19~dfsg-1+b1
ii  imagemagick                8:6.8.9.9-7+b2
ii  libc6                      2.22-7
ii  libcups2                   2.1.3-5
ii  libcupsfilters1            1.8.3-2+b1
ii  libcupsimage2              2.1.3-5
ii  libfontconfig1             2.11.0-6.4
ii  libfontembed1              1.8.3-2+b1
ii  libgcc1                    1:5.3.1-14
ii  libijs-0.35                0.35-12
ii  libpoppler57               0.38.0-2+b1
ii  libqpdf17                  6.0.0-2
ii  libstdc++6                 5.3.1-14
ii  poppler-utils              0.38.0-2+b1

Versions of packages cups-filters recommends:
ii  colord             1.3.2-1
ii  liblouis-bin       2.6.4-2+b1
ii  liblouisutdml-bin  2.5.0-3+b1

Versions of packages cups-filters suggests:
pn  antiword                                   <none>
pn  docx2txt                                   <none>
ii  foomatic-db-compressed-ppds [foomatic-db]  20160315-1

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