Re: downgrade ghostscript to get convert etc working

2020-03-08 Thread David Wright
On Sun 08 Mar 2020 at 22:45:12 (+0100), Emanuel Berg wrote: > Has this problem been mentioned in the BTS, you think? I found > this [1] but no one seems to match this situation exactly what > I can see (?) > > Can any of you guys reproduce it? I'm on buster [2] with > imagemagick 6.9 [3] No. > c

Re: downgrade ghostscript to get convert etc working

2020-03-08 Thread Emanuel Berg
Has this problem been mentioned in the BTS, you think? I found this [1] but no one seems to match this situation exactly what I can see (?) Can any of you guys reproduce it? I'm on buster [2] with imagemagick 6.9 [3] command: convert -composite bg.png fg.png -gravity center out.png error mess

Re: downgrade ghostscript to get convert etc working

2020-03-08 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Marco Möller (2020-03-08 13:26:25) > If the newer version (currently v9.50 in bullseye (testing)) would > solve the problem, then you may want to ask if someone could place > this newer version from bullseye into the buster-backports repository. > Afterwards you could install the backpor

Re: downgrade ghostscript to get convert etc working

2020-03-08 Thread Marco Möller
If the newer version (currently v9.50 in bullseye (testing)) would solve the problem, then you may want to ask if someone could place this newer version from bullseye into the buster-backports repository. Afterwards you could install the backported version 9.50 from there without hassle. This w

Re: downgrade ghostscript to get convert etc working

2020-03-08 Thread Curt
On 2020-03-08, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > The solution is *not* to downgrade: It is a security-related change. > > The solution is therefore to fix the Postscript code. > > That said, if you insist on doing a potentially dangerous _workaround_=20 > then there's https://snapshot.debian.org/ > Cou

Re: downgrade ghostscript to get convert etc working

2020-03-08 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, I have not tried this and do not use imagemagick directly (it is installed as a dependance on my system): perhaps you can deinstall imagemagick and install graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat instead? (Sorry, Emmanuel, my mistake, I dit click on "answer" and sent tp you a private mail)

Re: downgrade ghostscript to get convert etc working

2020-03-07 Thread Emanuel Berg
Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > The solution is *not* to downgrade: It is > a security-related change. OK, but here they say: Debian Buster (10) just came into Soft Freeze stage, after Full freeze it will be too late and this newly introduced bug will not be fixed for Debian Buster ...

Re: downgrade ghostscript to get convert etc working

2020-03-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Emanuel Berg (2020-03-07 23:07:16) > It seems convert doesn't work on Debian Buster, I get an error for > this command > > convert -composite $bg $fg -gravity center comp.png > > namely this message: "convert-im6.q16: no images defined `comp.png' > @ error/convert.c/ConvertImageComman