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dvipsk does not depend upon psfonts



The dvipsk package that was recently uploaded says:

    electra:/home/mercury# dpkg --info dvipsk*deb
     new debian package, version 2.0.
     size 181820 bytes: control archive= 774 bytes.
    	  64 bytes,     2 lines      conffiles
    	 772 bytes,    22 lines      control
    	  96 bytes,     2 lines   *  postinst             #!/bin/sh
    	  61 bytes,     2 lines   *  postrm               #!/bin/sh
     Package: dvipsk
     Version: 5.58f
     Package_Revision: 4
     Section: tex
     Depends: metafont, kpathsea, libc5 (>=5.2.18-1)
     Recommended: psfonts
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^        
     Provides: dvips
     Maintainer: Nils Rennebarth <nils@nus.pan-net.de>
     Description: TeX DVI-driver for Postscript
      This a driver that converts TeX's dvi files to Postscript
     [ ... etc ]

Thus, to say that dvipsk has been "compiled" with Depends: psfonts
seems an overstatement.

Alan









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