[Pkg-hpijs-devel] Bug#561134: hpijs: depends (via hplip) on cups, apparently to no purpose

[Philip Hands]

Package: hpijs
Version: 2.8.6.b-4
Severity: normal


The author of gnuspool (John M Collins <jmc at xisl.com>) points out
that he'd like to be able to install hpijs to be able to use it with
ghostscript for his print spooler, which we're in the process of packaging.

I must say that it certainly looks odd that something that adds an output
driver to ghostscript, and so is presumably just a data filter, ends up
depending (indirectly) on things like cups and avahi.

Please arange it so that one can install the ghostscript driver section
of this package without installing the cups server.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (800, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages hpijs depends on:
ii  cupsddk                   1.2.3-5        CUPS Driver Development Kit
ii  foomatic-filters          4.0-20090509-1 OpenPrinting printer support - fil
ii  ghostscript               8.70~dfsg-2+b1 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii  hplip                     2.8.6.b-4      HP Linux Printing and Imaging Syst
ii  libc6                     2.10.1-7       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.4.1-4      GCC support library
ii  libjpeg62                 6b-14          The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libssl0.9.8               0.9.8k-5       SSL shared libraries
ii  libstdc++6                4.4.1-4        The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

hpijs recommends no packages.

Versions of packages hpijs suggests:
pn  hpijs-ppds                    <none>     (no description available)
pn  hplip-doc                     <none>     (no description available)

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