Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed?

From	Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed?
Date	2017-10-30 03:50 +0100
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On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 08:28:46 -0400
The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> wrote:

> On 2017-10-29 at 07:49, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> 
> > Celejar wrote on 10/24/17 15:09:
> >
> >> On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 08:52:46 +0200
> >> Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> I forgot that you showed the dependency on cups-filters in your original mail.
> >>> On testing cups-filters 1.17.9-1 does not depend on imagemagick, it only
> >>> recommends it. And I use APT::Install-Recommends "false"; in /etc/apt/apt.conf.
> >>> Therefore, on this system imagemagick could be removed.
> >> 
> >> Interesting, thanks. So they changed the dependency from 'depends' to
> >> 'recommends', but they're still 'recommending' a dummy package.
> > 
> > Taking another look at package imagemagick-6.q16 (version 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16) it
> > states that it provides imagemagick. Therefore, I don't understand what's going
> > on on your system and there's nothing wrong with package cups-filters, I think.
> 
> My guess involves vague memories of there being an issue with versioned
> Provides: - although I thought that was more "you can't Provides: a
> specific version", not "a versioned Depends: won't be satisfied by a
> Provides: from a package with a suitable version number".

I don't understand this stuff well enough to add anything to the
conversation. All I know is that I still can't remove imagemagick
despite the fact that imagemagick-6.q16 "Provides:" imagemagick.

Celejar

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Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2017-10-20 06:00 +0200
  Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2017-10-20 10:30 +0200
    Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2017-10-20 19:10 +0200
      Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2017-10-20 23:30 +0200
        Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2017-10-23 02:50 +0200
          Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2017-10-23 12:00 +0200
            Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Roger Lynn <Roger@rilynn.me.uk> - 2017-10-23 22:30 +0200
              Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2017-10-24 01:30 +0200
                Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2017-10-24 02:20 +0200
                Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2017-10-24 04:20 +0200
                Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2017-10-24 03:10 +0200
            Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2017-10-24 01:20 +0200
              Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2017-10-24 09:00 +0200
                Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2017-10-24 19:10 +0200
                Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2017-10-29 13:00 +0100
                Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2017-10-29 13:30 +0100
                Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2017-10-30 03:50 +0100
                Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2017-10-30 11:20 +0100
                Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2017-10-30 16:00 +0100
                Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2017-10-30 16:10 +0100
                Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2017-10-30 18:40 +0100
  Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Roger Lynn <Roger@rilynn.me.uk> - 2017-10-21 18:30 +0200
    Re: Can imagemagick really be safely purged or removed? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2017-10-24 19:10 +0200

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