Debian Bug report logs - #393923
O: gs-afpl -- The AFPL Ghostscript PostScript interpreter

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Masayuki Hatta <mhatta@grad.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: O: gs-afpl -- The AFPL Ghostscript PostScript interpreter

Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:17:16 +0900

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

gs-afpl is basically superseded by gs-gpl (see
http://advogato.org/person/raph/diary.html?start=411), so I hereby
orphan this package.

Package: gs-afpl
Version: 8.53-1
Section: non-free/text
Priority: optional
Architecture: i386
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6), libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), libjasper-1.701-1 (>= 1.701.0), libjpeg62, libpaper1, libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.8rel), libsm6, libx11-6, libxext6, libxt6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1), gs-common (>= 0.3.9)
Recommends: gsfonts (>= 6.0-1), psfontmgr
Conflicts: gs (<< 8.01), gs-aladdin (<< 8.14), gs-cjk-resource (<< 1.20010910-1), gs-pdfencrypt (<< 7.00)
Replaces: gs (<< 8.01), gs-aladdin (<< 8.14), gs-pdfencrypt (<< 7.00)
Provides: gs, gs-aladdin, gs-pdfencrypt, postscript-viewer
Installed-Size: 12444
Maintainer: Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org>
Description: The AFPL Ghostscript PostScript interpreter
 This version is released under AFPL, not GNU GPL.  See
 /usr/share/doc/gs-afpl/copyright for detail.
 .
 Ghostscript is used for PostScript preview and printing.  Usually as
 a back-end to a program such as ghostview, it can display PostScript
 documents in an X11 environment.
 .
 Furthermore, it can render PostScript files as graphics to be printed
 on non-PostScript printers. Supported printers include common
 dot-matrix, inkjet and laser models.
 .
 Package gsfonts contains a set of standard fonts for Ghostscript.
 .
 The Ghostscript World Wide Web home page is at http://www.ghostscript.com/

Message #8 received at 393923-submitter@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Thomas Viehmann <tv@beamnet.de>

To: 393923-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Shouldn't gs-afpl be removed instead of orphaned?

Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 08:59:33 +0200

Hi,

shoudn't gs-apfl be removed if it's superseeded by free software as per
your statement in the bug report?

Kind regards

T.
-- 
Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/

Message #13 received at 393923@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Mohammed Adnène Trojette <adn@diwi.org>

To: Thomas Viehmann <tv@beamnet.de>

Cc: debian-qa@lists.debian.org, 393923@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Shouldn't gs-afpl be removed instead of orphaned?

Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 01:13:05 +0100

On Fri, Oct 20, 2006, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> shoudn't gs-apfl be removed if it's superseeded by free software as per
> your statement in the bug report?

I agree with you, even if there are many users of gs-apfl.

This package has many bugs and there are better alternatives in Debian.

Comments?

-- 
adn
Mohammed Adnène Trojette

Message #18 received at 393923@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>

To: Thomas Viehmann <tv@beamnet.de>, debian-qa@lists.debian.org, 393923@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Shouldn't gs-afpl be removed instead of orphaned?

Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 18:12:09 -0200

On Sun, 19 Nov 2006, Mohammed Adnène Trojette wrote:
> > shoudn't gs-apfl be removed if it's superseeded by free software as per
> > your statement in the bug report?
> 
> I agree with you, even if there are many users of gs-apfl.
> 
> This package has many bugs and there are better alternatives in Debian.

Transition it to gs-gpl, as per the new ghostscript scenario.  I.e. provide
an empty transition package.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh

Message #23 received at 393923@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>

To: Masayuki Hatta <mhatta@grad.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp>, 393923@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#393923: O: gs-afpl -- The AFPL Ghostscript PostScript interpreter

Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:55:01 +0100

* Masayuki Hatta <mhatta@grad.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp> [2006-10-18 23:17]:
> gs-afpl is basically superseded by gs-gpl (see

It seems the gs-afpl source package no longer exists in unstable.  Can
this bug be closed now?
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/

Message #28 received at 393923-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Thomas Huriaux <thomas.huriaux@gmail.com>

To: 393923-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: package removed

Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 13:13:03 +0100

gs-afpl was removed from the archive.

-- 
Thomas Huriaux

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