retitle 646870 gs-common is useless as is; should be removed.
thanks
Hi Jonas,
(CC to Steve for information)
Let's summarize this bugreport: Jakub reports that gs-common is useless
`as is` as it doesn't depend on anything. So gs-common doesn't serve its
purpose of migrating to ghostscript. ghostscript on its side "Provides:
gs-common".
Steve's proposal [0], on the collab-maint git repository of ghostscript
[1], is to drop both the gs-common package and ghostscript's "Provides:
gs-common", which is, I believe, a better solution than keeping it
forever around.
[0]
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/ghostscript.git;a=commitdiff;h=1ba79998
[1] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/ghostscript.git
So, before doing that, we should take a closer look at the impact on
the archive. To this effect, I reported several bugs, all usertagged:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=drop-gs-common;users=debian-print...@lists.debian.org
(As far as I can see, all those are also marked "blockers" of this
bug.)
In summary:
* gs-common has 1 reverse Build-Depends in contrib (none in non-free):
- ifeffit (#649702)
* gs-common has 13 reverse Build-Depends in main:
- fpc (#649703)
- geda-gaf (#649704)
- texpower (#649705)
- dieharder (#649706)
- autoclass (#629809)
- magnus (#649708)
- bacula-doc (#649709)
- ivritex (#618176)
- dejagnu (#649710)
- latex-mk (#649699)
- ball (#649711)
- wordnet (#649712)
- flite (#649713)
* gs-common has 2 reverse Suggests:
- latexmk (#649700)
- latex-mk (#649699)
* gs-common has 2 reverse Recommends:
- python-epydoc (#649697)
- xcfa (#649698)
* gs-common has 1 reverse Depends:
- latex-make (#649696)
I propose to upload ghostcript with Steve's proposed changes as soon as
possible, then rise the severity of the {Build-,}Depends to serious,
those of {Recommends,Suggests} to important. (Then one week after, we
can safely NMU those and be done with that issue for Wheezy...)
Opinions ? Jonas: are you okay with the proposed changes and are you
willing to upload "soon" ?
Cheers,
OdyX
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