>
> Package: ghostview
> Version: 1.5-8
>
> Ghostview should install itself into the /etc/mailcap entry so mime
> compatible programs can use it to view postscript documents.
>
> I suggest making ghostview "Recommends: mime-support" and adding the
> following to the install scripts:
>
> debian.postinst
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> if [ -x /usr/sbin/install-mime ]
> then
> install-mime --install --package=ghostview
> --content=application/postscript \
> --description="Postscript Formatted Output"
> --nametemplate="%s.ps" \
> --test='test "$DISPLAY" != ""' \
> --view='/usr/bin/X11/ghostview %s' \
> --comment="Ghostview is a fairly good front-end for viewing
> postscript \
> and should probably be given a reasonably high
> priority."
> fi
>
> debian.prerm
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~
> if [ -x /usr/sbin/install-mime ]
> then
> install-mime --remove --package=ghostview
> fi
>
>
No, that isn't what should be done, or at least not the only thing.
I'm on my way to produce a second posctscript-viewer (front-end to gs)
called gv, that is in some ways much better than ghostview, though there
are too many differences in the user interface to drop ghostview instead.
I propose to have a virtual package postscript_viewer installing a
/etc/alternatives - managed binary /usr/bin/X11/ps_view and handling the stuff
via update-alternatives.
mime-support should either put/usr/bin/X11/ps_view into mailcap by default
(which is what I propose), or we install it from ghostview and gv using
install-mime.
Helmut
