Debian bug report logs - #1716 dvipsk recommends psfonts - nonexistent package Package: dvipsk ; Reported by: Ian Jackson ; 11 days old. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk!ian Fri Oct 20 17:56:47 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0t6SEv-0000zDC; Fri, 20 Oct 95 17:56 PDT Received: from artemis.chu.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA07206 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Fri, 20 Oct 1995 17:56:19 -0700 Received: from chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk by artemis.chu.cam.ac.uk with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #33) id m0t6SEn-0007uOC; Sat, 21 Oct 95 01:56 BST Received: by chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk id m0t6SEa-0002aWC (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Sat, 21 Oct 95 01:56 BST Message-Id: Date: Sat, 21 Oct 95 01:56 BST From: Ian Jackson To: Debian bugs submission address Subject: dvipsk recommends psfonts - nonexistent package Package: dvipsk Version: 5.58f-3 The `dvipsk' package says: recommends: psfonts However, there is no package `psfonts', nor does any package Provide `psfonts'. (Packages-Master of the 21st of October, 00:49GMT.) This means that when you select dvipsk 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to Ian Jackson : New bug report received and forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Report forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com : Bug#1716 ; Package dvipsk . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov