Comment # 1
on bug 1216560
from Johannes Meixner
regarding "cups-filters" there is in ghostscript.spec only
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%if 0%{?suse_version} > 1210
Recommends: cups-filters-ghostscript
%endif
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and in ghostscript.changes there is
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Tue Sep 3 16:26:46 CEST 2013 - jsmeix@suse.de
...
* The CUPS filters gstoraster and gstopxl have been
removed from Ghostscript. Those filters are now provided by
cups-filters (a free software package hosted by OpenPrinting)
that contains all CUPS filters needed by CUPS under Linux
(see also the openSUSE issue bnc#735404 comment#44 at
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735404#c44).
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so I assume this "Recommends: cups-filters-ghostscript"
came from
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735404#c44
which is dated 2013-08-28
In cups-filters.spec there is
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Requires: cups > 1.5.4
...
Provides: cups-filters-ghostscript
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and in cups-filters.changes there is
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Tue May 30 13:57:16 CEST 2017 - jsmeix@suse.de
- Since version 1.14.0 there are no longer sub-packages ...
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so since May 30 2017
a "Recommends: cups-filters-ghostscript"
leads to a "Requires: cups > 1.5.4"
I think both
in ghostscript.spec "Recommends: cups-filters-ghostscript"
and in cups-filters.spec "Requires: cups > 1.5.4"
are meanwhile wrong.
That cups-filters.spec "Requires: cups > 1.5.4"
is only there to require a sufficient CUPS version.
It is not there to require CUPS.
See the comment in cups-filters.spec there.
I will have a closer look which of all those old dependencies
around cups-filters is still needed nowadays.
I want to keep backward compatibility with SLE15/Leap15
(even SLE12-GA has already cups-1.7.5).