I've just spoken with Till about this on IRC. It seems to me that there are two patches involved here. Patch 1 (fix- document-rotation) fixed bug 1242678, but caused a regression (tracked by this bug: bug 1348384). Marek has kindly provided patch 2 (erase- page) that fixes this.
But patch 1 was reverted upstream, and we don't know what the current status of this is. So patch 1 has inadvertently caused Ubuntu to diverge from upstream, and this is what is causing the current pain. I think that taking patch 2 is going to exacerbate the problem. Then we'll be even further diverged from upstream, and this will make future merges harder, which sets Ubuntu up to end up with an old version for fear of regression. So to avoid making the situation worse, can someone please resolve the situation of these two bugs upstream before pushing this patch into Ubuntu? What has upstream done about bug 1242678? Would it be better to revert patch 1 from Ubuntu, and take what upstream has done to fix it instead, thus avoiding this regression altogether and bring us closer to upstream? Finally, when preparing debdiffs, please use dep3 headers (http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/) to make it easier to follow upstream status on these patches. Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to evince in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1348384 Title: evince and okular do not render eps files correctly resulting in a black background Status in evince package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in libspectre package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Status in okular package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Several eps files, which previously rendered correctly, are not rendered correctly by evince and okular. It looks as though something is wrong with the "transparency" setting, since most of the incorrectly-rendered files have a black background, but the figure can somewhat be made out on top of hte black background. The PDF files I have tested are NOT affected. EPS files that were previously viewable correctly ARE affected. Thank you for your time. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: evince 3.10.3-0ubuntu10.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-32.57-generic 3.13.11.4 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-32-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Thu Jul 24 16:54:06 2014 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: evince UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-06-03 (51 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/1348384/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
