[Bug 84709] wrong dependency from gs?

[Vincenzo Ciancia]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: evince

In the default feisty installation, evince does not display postscript
files at all. The fact that it gives no error has been reported in other
bugs and fixed upstream, however the dependencies of evince are somewhat
wrong: it depends on "gs-esp-x | gs" however "gs-esp" (notice, without
the final "-x") provides gs. So in the default install, gs-esp is
installed without gs-esp-x. BTW, I had to install kghostview to get an
error, and I had to blindly try to guess from "unknown device x11" and
"apt-cache search ghostview", that I had to install "gs-esp-x".

Clearly installing gs-esp-x solves the problem, I don't know if the "gs"
feature is not supposed to provide x11, so that would be a bug of
evince, that should tighten its dependencies, or if it is supposed to
provide it, in that case the bug is in gs-esp providing gs which is
wrong.

** Affects: evince (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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wrong dependency from gs?
https://launchpad.net/bugs/84709