Debian bug report logs - #1719
hyperlatex recommends ghostscript - nonexistent package

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Done with version hyperlatex 1.3-5
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From: Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>
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Subject: hyperlatex recommends ghostscript - nonexistent package

Package: hyperlatex
Version: 1.3-4

The `hyperlatex' package says:
 recommends: latex, ghostscript, giftrans, pbmplus

However, there is no package `ghostscript', nor does any package
Provide `ghostscript'.  (Packages-Master of the 21st of October,
00:49GMT.)

This means that when you select hyperlatex in dselect you get a
conflict/dependency resolution screen which is supposed to warn you
about this potential problem (remember that a Recommends line is quite
a strong recommendation).

(Currently - dpkg 1.0.5 - the conflict/dependency resolution screen is
less informative than it might be; I intend to improve this, but the
problem will not go away until the bad recommendation is fixed.)

Ian.