Hello Till, David, Mr. Leung, Please keep in in the loop regarding this KRGB issue. I will coordinate the fixes within Debian, when they are available.
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > beside the licensing issue (afpl gs has a very different > license), the KRGB patch apparently breaks 1-bit > IJS devices; > > http://www.cups.org/espgs/str.php?L1077 > http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12371 > > And I think this is the same segfault: > Debian Bug #294430 > gs-gpl: New Upstream fixes IJS Segfault Agreed. And it also explain why previously only Debian users reported all-black printing to HP upstream, as I pestered the Debian ghostscript maintainers to add KRGB support as soon as I started co-maintaining hpijs (now hplip) a sometime ago, and the other distros apparently took a while to do the same. The bug is almost certainly present on the Debian gs-esp package as well. Both Debian gs-gpl and Debian gs-esp have had the KRGB patch in for quite a while. So, Debian bugs #272122, #294430 and #249168 are related (probably the same problem). They are also probably the same problem as Mandrake bug #12371 and CUPS ESPGS bug #1077 as Mr. Leung said. On a related note: David, maybe it is high time for HP to also put the KRGB patch in an AFPL compatible license? I have asked about this before, but I got no replies. If the patch is folded into gs upstream, such problems would be fixed far sooner, or at least detected far sooner, I think. And it looks to me like it would make a lot of sense for HP to have the best possible IJS KRGB support on ghostscript, including the AFPL edition... -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
