Hi, Thanks for this good news.
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 12:09:05AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > 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. After hearing this news, the answer is simple. All packages which use gs-esp in its depends line need to be updated. The most important one is *cupsys* package which is installed in most system. > 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 have no preference on this issue. I will follow others. > 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. I CCed cupsys maintainer who only list gs-esp as the sole choice. > 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 Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
