Re: Bug#503712: the gs-common problem

[Thomas Viehmann <tv@beamnet.de>]

Hi,

Luk Claes wrote:
>> Thanks for looking into this! Uploaded ghostscript 8.62.dfsg.1-3.2.

> unblocked

Please allow me the liberty of proposing the attached NMU for fixing
#503712 (and opportunistically #510691 now that we know, but I've left
all other dependency stuff out).

If considered desirable, it would be nice if someone could sponsor this.
Packages are available[1].

Kind regards

T.

1. http://vman.de/debian/
-- 
Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/

diff -u ghostscript-8.62.dfsg.1/debian/control ghostscript-8.62.dfsg.1/debian/control
--- ghostscript-8.62.dfsg.1/debian/control
+++ ghostscript-8.62.dfsg.1/debian/control
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@
 Package: libgs-dev
 Section: libdevel
 Architecture: any
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, libgs8
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, libgs8 (= ${binary:Version})
 Conflicts: libgs-esp-dev (<< 8.62)
 Replaces: libgs-esp-dev (<< 8.62)
 Provides: libgs-esp-dev
diff -u ghostscript-8.62.dfsg.1/debian/changelog ghostscript-8.62.dfsg.1/debian/changelog
--- ghostscript-8.62.dfsg.1/debian/changelog
+++ ghostscript-8.62.dfsg.1/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+ghostscript (8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny0) testing; urgency=low
+
+  * Non-maintainer upload to testing, mainly to get fix
+    from 8.62.dfsg.1-3.2:
+    - Make ghostscript depend on gs-common to prevent removal.
+      Drop gs-common -> ghostscript-x dependency to not force the
+      X version on all users. Hopefully Closes: #503712.
+  * libgs-dev: version Depends: libgs8. Closes: #510691.
+
+ -- Thomas Viehmann <tv@beamnet.de>  Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:33:33 +0100
+
 ghostscript (8.62.dfsg.1-3.2) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Non-maintainer upload.