Bug#876566: printfilters-ppd: Depends of no longer available package (mpage)

2019-08-16 Thread Tari
Hi

What should we do here with the from Debian removed package? We could at least 
move the mpage from depend to recommend to fix the issue with install and 
build. See diff below for that small change. But as Jeremy Bicha said on 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=876571, also recommending a 
no-longer-builtin package would be a bug. Removing everything related to mpage?

Can I help making needed changes?

Best
Taridiff -u printfilters-ppd-2.13/debian/control printfilters-ppd-2.13-1/debian/control
--- printfilters-ppd-2.13/debian/control
+++ printfilters-ppd-2.13-1/debian/control
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@

Package: printfilters-ppd
Architecture: any
-Depends: transfig, mpage, perl (>= 5.005), libprintsys, ppdfilt, file, ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
-Recommends: enscript, lprng | lpr-ppd, ghostscript, smbclient
+Depends: transfig, perl (>= 5.005), libprintsys, ppdfilt, file, ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
+Recommends: enscript, mpage, lprng | lpr-ppd, ghostscript, smbclient
Suggests: dvips, netpbm, libjpeg-progs|libjpeg-gif, libtiff-tools, recode, djtools, bzip2
Conflicts: apsfilter, magicfilter
Description: filters from the GNUlpr printing system


Bug#876566: printfilters-ppd: Depends of no longer available package (mpage)

2017-09-23 Thread Joao Eriberto Mota Filho
Package: printfilters-ppd
Version: 2.13-11.1
Severity: grave
Tags: newcomer
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear maintainer,

Your package depends of mpage, removed from Debian on 2017-09-22 (see #876197).
Please, drop mpage from Depends field.

Regards,

Eriberto