Bug#584653: ghostscript: does not honor -P- option

2010-11-27 Thread paul . szabo
Dear Mehdi, > We prefer targeted fixes ... > ... we won't be able to review [gs 9.00] or accept it ... Supposing that those "targeted fixes" may not happen. Would you then release gs 8.71 with a grave (= RC) bug? Or would you drop gs, or delay squeeze? I am genuinely curious. Thanks, Paul Paul

Bug#584653: ghostscript: does not honor -P- option

2010-11-27 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 10:41:39PM +0100, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: On 11/27/2010 11:54 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:43:56PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: It looks like the release team won't be accepting the version in experimental due to the rather large diff. One way t

Bug#584653: ghostscript: does not honor -P- option

2010-11-27 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 11/27/2010 11:54 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:43:56PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: >> It looks like the release team won't be accepting the version in >> experimental due to the rather large diff. > > One way to find out is by asking them. > > My plan is to ask

Bug#584653: ghostscript: does not honor -P- option

2010-11-27 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 11:54:52 +0100 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Hi Michael, > > On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:43:56PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: > >If I'm reading this discussion right, you expect someone else to apply > >the attached patches and then assume responsibility for the entire > >packag

Bug#584653: ghostscript: does not honor -P- option

2010-11-27 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Hi Michael, On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:43:56PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: If I'm reading this discussion right, you expect someone else to apply the attached patches and then assume responsibility for the entire package since you're unwilling maintain it if it has any more patches? That see

Bug#584653: ghostscript: does not honor -P- option

2010-11-26 Thread Michael Gilbert
If I'm reading this discussion right, you expect someone else to apply the attached patches and then assume responsibility for the entire package since you're unwilling maintain it if it has any more patches? That seems a bit extreme, but I will take a look at doing so when I find some time. It l

Bug#584653: ghostscript: does not honor -P- option

2010-08-08 Thread paul . szabo
I wonder if this is now fixed upstream: http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691350#c19 Cheers, Paul Paul Szabo p...@maths.usyd.edu.au http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of SydneyAustralia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bug

Bug#584653: ghostscript: does not honor -P- option

2010-08-07 Thread Markus Steinborn
The attached patches are taken from the upstream repository. r11352 has been backported to GPL ghostscript 8.71. The other patch file contains the documentation update done by upstream. Greetings Markus Steinborn GNU gv maintainer diff -u trunk/gs/man/gs.1 trunk/gs/man/gs.1 --- trunk/gs/man/g

Bug#584653: ghostscript: does not honor -P- option

2010-06-05 Thread Bernhard R. Link
Package: ghostscript Version: 8.62.dfsg.1-3.2 Severity: grave Tags: security This is a different issue than ghostscript defaulting -P and not -P-, for which I'll file an other bug report. Ghostscript does not honor -P- for postscript system libraries. As gs_init.ps is such an file that is also r