Re: Why was gs-aladdin removed as "recommends" from magicfilter?
On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Brian Servis wrote:
> *- 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
That's correct! Somehow the dselect in dpkg 1.4.1.1 doesn't seem to
accept it. I'll check a bit further and file a bug against dpkg if
necessary.
Bob
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