Bug#972896: libgs9-common: please relax the dependency on fonts-urw-base35

[Fabian Greffrath <fabian@debian.org>]

Package: libgs9-common
Version: 9.52.1~dfsg-1
Severity: important

Hi there,

the fonts-urw-base35 is currently stuck in unstable and not allowed to
migrate to testing because the ghostscript package currently suffers
from a completely unrelated RC bug. This is because the libgs9-common
package has an overly strict dependecy on fonts-urw-base35:

Depends: fonts-urw-base35 (<< 20170801.1.0~), fonts-urw-base35 (>= 20170801.1)

Thus, the font package is punished for a bug in ghostscript that's not
even related to the font at all. Please relax the dependency to just
the "fonts-urw-base35 (>= 20170801.1)" part so that newer versions of
the font than the one the ghostscript package was built with are
allowed to migrate to testing.

Thanks!

 - Fabian


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'experimental'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.8.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libgs9-common depends on:
ii  fonts-urw-base35  20170801.1-3

Versions of packages libgs9-common recommends:
ii  fonts-droid-fallback  1:6.0.1r16-1.1

libgs9-common suggests no packages.

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