Re: Why was gs-aladdin removed as "recommends" from magicfilter?
*- On 7 Apr, Bob Nielsen wrote about "Re: Why was gs-aladdin removed as "recommends" from magicfilter?"
> On 7 Apr 1999, Jan Vroonhof wrote:
>
>> Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu> writes:
>>
>> > > Recommends: lpr | lprng, gs (>= 3.33) | gs-aladdin
>> > >
>> > > to
>> > >
>> > > Recommends: lpr | lprng, gs (>= 3.33)
>> > >
>> > > Isn't this carrying the free/non-free argument a bit far?
>> > In addition, the packages in "main"
>> > => * must not require a package outside of "main" for compilation or
>> > => execution (thus, the package may not declare a "Depends" or
>> > => "Recommends" relationship on a non-main package),
>>
>> If that is the reason then I think this either a bug in the policy or
>> a misinterpretation of it. It does not "require" it because the
>> recommends is on "gs | gs-alladin". i.e. you can satisfy it with the
>> DFSG free version of gs.
>
> I agree, although a better approach might be to have gs-aladdin show
>
> Provides: gs
>
It already does, so basically having magicfilter with a recommends of
gs is fine, since gs-aladdin provides gs. If gs-aladdin is installed
dselect shouldn't complain.
Package: gs-aladdin
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: non-free/text
Installed-Size: 4417
Maintainer: Marco Pistore <pistore@di.unipi.it>
Version: 5.50-3
Replaces: gs
Provides: gs, postscript-viewer
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Brian
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