severity 309605 wishlist
thanks

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 11:50:49AM +0200, Frederic LEHOBEY wrote:
> Package: a2ps
> Version: 1:4.13b-4.3
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable

> I found a2ps to be missing dependency on psutils (currently it is only
> a `recommends').

> $ LANG=C a2ps -2 /tmp/developers-reference.fr.ps 
> sh: line 1: psnup: command not found
> [/tmp/developers-reference.fr.ps (ps, delegated to PsNup): failed.  Ignored]
> [No output produced]

This doesn't look like a bug at all to me.  The a2ps package is usable
without psutils, it just can't handle postscript input files.  I believe
this is a perfectly correct use of Recommends: under policy.

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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