Package: ghostscript Version: 10.05.0~dfsg-1 Severity: minor Tags: upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: d...@bostoncoop.net
This release of ghostscript has removed the 'pdf2dsc' utility, which preview-latex (now a part of the auctex package) depends on. There's discussion on the gs-devel/auctex-devel mailing lists, which you can see some of starting here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/auctex-devel/2025-03/msg00007.html To summarize the thread, it seems that 'pdf2dsc' is an ancient utility that only by some miracle still works with the current Ghostscript (10.05). (It is used by preview-latex to produce inline images inside an emacs buffer for performance reasons.) This has been the case for some time, but it was only recently removed from gs upstream. The Ghostscript developers have no interest in maintaining it, but restored it as a stop-gap in the upstream Git repository, to be released in due course at the next public release (scheduled for September). There's also quite a lot of mistrust and talking past each other in that thread. If Debian does anything in the short term, it would be to pull the relevant change, as described here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/auctex-devel/2025-03/msg00018.html -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers oldstable-updates APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.12.20-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages ghostscript depends on: ii libc6 2.41-6 ii libgs10 10.05.0~dfsg-1 ghostscript recommends no packages. Versions of packages ghostscript suggests: ii texlive-binaries 2024.20240313.70630+ds-6 -- no debconf information
