Hi Francesco, On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 10:56:57PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Fri, 14 Oct 2016 06:47:47 +0200 Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > > [...] > > Hi Francesco, > > Hello Salvatore, thanks for your fast reply! > > > > > On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 11:56:22PM +0200, Francesco Poli (wintermute) wrote: > [...] > > > After the security update: > [...] > > > I was unable to use zathura or evince > [...] > > > > This was indeed not spotted in my testing of the update for the DSA. > > The blame for this should solely go to myself (not the team). We > > should find the cause asap and find a fix. I can reproduce it with > > evince. > > It's a relief that you are able to reproduce the bug (at least, I was > not seeing "ghosts"...). > > I hope that a fix may be found and applied soon.
Only a small status update. I worked on the very same patches for ghostscript as well for the unstable version, to confirm I did not any significant mistake in the backports. The problem starts there as well once the patches are applied, and I suspect it actually might have uncovered a bug in a library which is used by evince and zathura(-ps), libspectre came to my mind. We go no reports for other clients so far, not using that. If you want to give the packages as well for unstable a try, I have uploaded to https://people.debian.org/~carnil/tmp/ghostscript/ . Looking at the bugs for src:libspectre indeed there is a long list of failure reports with some PostScript files not failing with other viewers/readers :-/ The above though is not yet confirmed. Stay tuned, and any debugging help welcome. Regards, Salvatore