Re: Two Packages Missing

["Carlo U. Segre" <segre@charlie.cns.iit.edu>]

On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Buddha Buck wrote:

> > Guy Maor: 
> >
> >  > pbmplus was replaced by netpbm.
> > 
> > Hmm. Perhaps some kind soul can make a debian package?!
> > 
> 
> Someone did...
> 
> bash$  dpkg -s netpbm 
> Package: netpbm
> Status: install ok installed
> Priority: optional
> Section: non-free
> Maintainer: Jim Robinson <jimr@simons-rock.edu>
> Version: 1994.03.01p1-5
> Description: netpbm -- graphics conversion tools.
>  Netpbm is a toolkit for conversion of images between a variety of
>  different formats, as well as to allow a few basic image operations.
>  It is based on the pbmplus distribution.
> 

True, however this package should also say that it provides pbmplus so 
that other packages which require pbmplus will install correctly.  Maybe 
additional links would also be necessary.

Cheers,

Carlo


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