Bug#375464: [Build-common-hackers] Bug#375464: cdbs: FTBFS: gs: command not found

[Andreas Jochens]

Hello,

On 06-Jun-26 10:06, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Montag, 26. Juni 2006 09:27 schrieb Andreas Jochens:
> > epstopdf --outfile=buildcore.pdf buildcore.eps
> > sh: gs: command not found
> > make[3]: *** [buildcore.pdf] Broken pipe
> > make[3]: Leaving directory `/cdbs-0.4.43/doc'
> >
> > Please add the missing Build-Depends on 'gs-common'
> > to debian/control.
> 
> Isn't that a bug in whatever package supplies epstopdf not having proper 
> dependencies?

epstopdf is part of tetex-bin which only suggests gs but does not
depend on it. This is probably because tetex-bin can be used
without having gs installed. I am not sure if it would be a good
thing to make tetex-bin depend on gs.

Regards
Andreas Jochens