Subject: Bug#3475: xpaint Recommends pbmplus

From: Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>, Stephen Early <[email-masked]>, Owen Dunn <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 96 14:16 BST

Package: xpaint
Version: 2.1.1-1

Package: xpaint
Recommends: pbmplus
Depends: libc5, elf-x11r6lib, xpm4.7

Unless we are sorely mistaken and xpaint really is missing much
functionality without pbmplus the recommendation should be removed.
Furthermore, pbmplus is in non-free.

It may or may not be appropriate to `Suggest: netpbm | pbmplus',
depending how useful xpaint is without the netpbm tools.

(This bug was encountered during a test installation of 1.1 done by
the three of us.)

Ian.

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From: Marek Michalkiewicz <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 18:40:06 +0200 (MET DST)

> Furthermore, pbmplus is in non-free.

Actually, only one program (ppmtogif) is non-free, and only in the US
anyway (software patents) - as far as I can tell, the rest of pbmplus
is free.  Maybe there should be two binary packages: one for ppmtogif
(non-free in the US) and one for the rest (in the graphics section)?

Marek