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Bug#457381: marked as done (libgs8: should libcupsimage2 be a recommends rather than depends?)

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and subject line Re: it would be nice to be able to install ghostscript without libcupsys2
has caused the Debian Bug report #452382,
regarding libgs8: should libcupsimage2 be a recommends rather than depends?
to be marked as done.

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Package: libgs8
Version: 8.61.dfsg.1~svn8187-3
Severity: normal

ghostscript ends up getting removed if the user tries to remove cups from 
their system. this is because libgs8 has a dependency on libcupsimage2.
it seems like this is an undesirable effect because ghostscript should
still be able to function for the most part without the printing system.
if this is the case, then the depends on libcupsimage2 should be 
changed to a recommends instead.

thanks for the hard work.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libgs8 depends on:
ii  libc6                 2.7-5              GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcomerr2            1.40.3-1           common error description library
ii  libcupsimage2         1.3.4-4            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsys2            1.3.4-4            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libfontconfig1        2.5.0-2            generic font configuration library
ii  libgnutls13           2.0.4-1            the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libjpeg62             6b-14              The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libkrb53              1.6.dfsg.3~beta1-2 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libpaper1             1.1.23             library for handling paper charact
ii  libpng12-0            1.2.15~beta5-3     PNG library - runtime
ii  libstdc++6            4.2.2-4            The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libtiff4              3.8.2-7            Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii  zlib1g                1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-8   compression library - runtime

libgs8 recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

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On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:02:05 +0100 "Bernhard R. Link" <brlink@debian.org> 
wrote:
> Package: ghostscript
> Version: 8.61.dfsg.1~svn8187-1
> Severity: whishlist
> 
> While the old gs-gpl could be installed without libcupsys2 and
> libcupsimage2, the new ghostscript package depends on them via libgs8.
> It would nice nice if ghostscript could be installed without those.

ghostscript builds against cups in order to provide a raster output driver for 
CUPS.

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