Hi IOhannes,
Quoting IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU) (2016-01-20 13:19:07)
> since ghostscript can be used in various ways that do not require an
> installed font (e.g. ps2ascii), the 'gsfonts' package is not a strict
> dependency.
[...]
> as such i would recommend to demote the dependency to 'R
Package: ghostscript
Version: 9.16~dfsg-2
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
since ghostscript can be used in various ways that do not require an installed
font (e.g. ps2ascii), the 'gsfonts' package is not a strict dependency.
the policy §7.2 says:
> Recommends:
>
> This declares a strong, but