[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#533186: Bug not fixed, sorry

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Thu Jun 18 16:11:21 UTC 2009


reopen 533186 !
severity 533186 serious
thanks

Sorry, but cups depends on ghostscript-cups since it cannot work without
it.

Fixing the circular dependency is a good thing to do, and I agree it is
an important bug, but I encourage you to fix it in a way that complies
with the policy.

Recommends
        
        This declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency.
        
        The Recommends field should list packages that would be found
        together with this one in all but unusual installations.

“No file can be printed” is not an “unusual” installation. It is a
broken one. Recommends are here to allow setups with lower
functionality, not completely broken setups.

Please make ghostscript-cups a Depends. We’ll think on how to fix the
circular dependency when at the very least the package works.

Thanks,
-- 
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