duplicate gs and gsfonts
Hello All:
It appears that there is a duplication of gs and gsfonts in the Debian
tree. The 2.62-2 versions of both packages appear in the
/stable/binary/text and /unstable/binary/text directories but the 3.53-3
version of gsfonts and the 4.0-1 version of gs appear in the
/non-free/binary directory. There is a problem with the latter item
since gs version 4.0-1 requires the 4.0-1 version of gsfonts, which is
not available.
When dselect finds this kind of arrangement it uses the highest version
number and therefore tries to install the packages which are in the
non-free part of the tree, with unfortunate results. It might be a good
idea to rename the packages to distinguish the normal copylefted versions in
the stable and unstable directories from the versions in the non-free.
This could be done in much the same way as for tk40 and tk41 and
conflicts could be established so the two would not be loaded together.
Cheers,
Carlo
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