Bug#972896: libgs9-common: please relax the dependency on fonts-urw-base35

2020-10-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Fabian Greffrath (2020-10-26 12:10:06) > Am 2020-10-26 11:01, schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > > Your signalling that you think I am an idiot does not help here. > > I absolutely do not think you are an idiot! Quite the contrary, I > assume you to be a very intelligent person, thus I wonder wh

Bug#972896: libgs9-common: please relax the dependency on fonts-urw-base35

2020-10-26 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 2020-10-26 11:01, schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: Your signalling that you think I am an idiot does not help here. I absolutely do not think you are an idiot! Quite the contrary, I assume you to be a very intelligent person, thus I wonder why you ask me to repeat my arguments over and over again

Bug#972896: libgs9-common: please relax the dependency on fonts-urw-base35

2020-10-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Fabian Greffrath (2020-10-26 10:13:41) > Am 2020-10-26 09:56, schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > > You cannot mean to sugges that ghostscript should violate Debian > > Policy by ignoring the integrity of symlinks, so it must be > > something else. Please elaborate what you have in mind. > > *Si

Bug#972896: libgs9-common: please relax the dependency on fonts-urw-base35

2020-10-26 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 2020-10-26 09:56, schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: You cannot mean to sugges that ghostscript should violate Debian Policy by ignoring the integrity of symlinks, so it must be something else. Please elaborate what you have in mind. *Sigh!* Please reconsider letting unrelated packages migrate to te

Bug#972896: libgs9-common: please relax the dependency on fonts-urw-base35

2020-10-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Fabian Greffrath (2020-10-26 09:38:58) > Am 2020-10-25 22:48, schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > > It seems to me that the concrete delay is caused by ghostscript in > > _testing_ having tight dependency on the font, and that it therefore > > cannot be solved by an upload to unstable - only by gho

Bug#972896: libgs9-common: please relax the dependency on fonts-urw-base35

2020-10-26 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 2020-10-25 22:48, schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: It seems to me that the concrete delay is caused by ghostscript in _testing_ having tight dependency on the font, and that it therefore cannot be solved by an upload to unstable - only by ghostscript migrating to testing (or ghostscript getting kicke

Bug#972896: libgs9-common: please relax the dependency on fonts-urw-base35

2020-10-25 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Fabian Greffrath (2020-10-25 21:58:30) > the fonts-urw-base35 is currently stuck in unstable and not allowed to > migrate to testing because the ghostscript package currently suffers > from a completely unrelated RC bug. This is because the libgs9-common > package has an overly strict de

Bug#972896: libgs9-common: please relax the dependency on fonts-urw-base35

2020-10-25 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Package: libgs9-common Version: 9.52.1~dfsg-1 Severity: important Hi there, the fonts-urw-base35 is currently stuck in unstable and not allowed to migrate to testing because the ghostscript package currently suffers from a completely unrelated RC bug. This is because the libgs9-common package has