found 310203 8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny1 thanks Hello, On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 03:05:04PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Package: gs-common > Version: 0.3.7 > Severity: minor > > I stumbled over "dumphint". Given that it has not man page (which it > should, c.f. Debian Policy), I wanted to write a man page. However, on > every pdf-file I tried (created by a variety of different programms) > it fails to work. For example, when I use a small drawing created by > xfig, I get: > he...@thirtyto:~$ dumphint /tmp/ifer-l.pdf > Error: /undefinedfilename in (dumphint.ps) > Operand stack: > > Execution stack: > %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- > --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- > --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push --nostringval-- > --nostringval-- > Dictionary stack: > --dict:1050/1123(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:70/200(L)-- > Current allocation mode is local > Last OS error: 2 > GPL Ghostscript 8.01: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 > > And the error seems to be the same every time I call dumphint.
I now tried it on 61 various pdf files, same result.
> When I reverse the last two arguments, i.e.,
> gs -q -dNODISPLAY -dSAFER -dDELAYSAFER -- /tmp/ifer-l.pdf "dumphint.ps"
> then gs suceeds:
> he...@thirtyto:~$ echo $?
> 0
>
> However, there is no output (file, stdout) at all. Running under strace,
> I see that *all* files are opened O_RDONLY, hence nothing will be
> written.
Same again.
> So either dumphint needs to be documented (if you give me some
> information, I can write you a man page) and possibly fixed (as the
> current syntax as suggested by the help output simply does not work)
> or if nothing else requires
> it, it should be removed. If it only has some internal use, then it
> should IMHO not be in a user visible namespace (i.e., not in the
> default path).
Any update on this?
Greetings
Helge
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