Hi everyone, recently ghostscript 8.60 was released [1] which is now available under the GPL. The features of ESP Ghostscript have been merged into Ghostscript GPL and the upstream of gs-esp has officially declared gs-esp obsolete [2].
The Debian gs-afpl package has been orphaned some time ago [3]. So, my question is, what the plan is for lenny with regard to all these different gs-* packages. AFAIK, Ubuntu has introduced a new package called "ghostscript" (as successor of gs-gpl) which supersedes gs-esp, gs-gpl and gs-afpl and provides dummy/transitional packages for gs-esp/gs-gpl which depend on the ghostscript package to ensure a smooth upgrade. I CCed the gs-* maintainers, because I'm interested to know if they intend to go the same route or if they have different plans and also if there is already a prospective time frame for such a "ghostscript" package. Cheers, Michael [1] http://www.ghostscript.com/awki [2] http://www.cups.org/espgs/articles.php?L463 [3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=393923 -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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