On Sun, 09 Sep 2007 10:19:00 +0200,
werner bauer wrote:
> receiving very rubbish images on my HP Color Laserjet 1600, Rick
> from http://foo2hp.rkkda.com/ advised me to install gs 8.54. I
> achieved this on feisty (7.04) by installing gs-gpl and manually
> linking /usr/bin/gs-gpl to /usr/bin/gs ... but is this the correct
> way? And what about the transitional package "gs" I found?

I'm too lazy to check, but if you had to link /usr/bin/gs-gpl to
/usr/bin/gs, that would have been done by the transitional package gs,
much like Debian shows firefox as a transitional package, when it's
basically a handful of links and scripts to call iceweasel.

A transitional package may provide man/info pages as well.

Michael C.
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Michael C. schrieb:
> I'm too lazy to check, but if you had to link /usr/bin/gs-gpl to
> /usr/bin/gs, that would have been done by the transitional package gs
....

I don' think so. The transitional package delivers only 3 files,
copyright, NEWS and changelog. News containing something about v 8.01-5
(per apr 2004), copyright saying it was debianized in 2004, and
changelog says it is rebuild because of some amd64 issues. Seems there
is nothing done ...

gs-gpl installs files in /usr/share/gs-gpl/8.54 whilst the original
gs-files in feisty are in /usr/share/gs-esp/8.15 ...?
still and more confused ...
Werner