Bug#414473: tetex-bin: Should depend on gs-gpl, because epstopdf fails without it

To: 414473@bugs.debian.org
Cc: Holger Jeromin <maildebianbug@katur.de>
Subject: Bug#414473: tetex-bin: Should depend on gs-gpl, because epstopdf fails without it
From: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:45:38 +0100
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Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:

> No, it already Suggests it, and that is enough: epstopdf is only a very
> minor part of teTeX and does not warrant a Depends.

I didn't notice that you reported the bug against the sarge version.
For sarge, the answer should have been:

"No, because it Suggests gv or any postscript viewer, which in turn
depend on gs".

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

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- Bug#414473: tetex-bin: Should depend on gs-gpl, because epstopdf fails without it
  - From: Holger Jeromin <maildebianbug@katur.de>
- Bug#414473: tetex-bin: Should depend on gs-gpl, because epstopdf fails without it
  - From: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>

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