Package: libcairo2 Version: 1.4.10-1+b2 Severity: normal
The PostScript backend included in libcairo has a bug that always causes a rangecheck error for version 8.56 or later of ghostscript (a.k.a. gs) such as the version of gs in Debian testing. Apparently, the modern releases of ghostscript are more careful than the previous versions about rangecheck errors. For discussion of and confirmation of this libcairo bug see http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2007-November/012152.html and surrounding thread. The patch for the one-line fix has recently been committed to libcairo git (see http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo;a=commitdiff;h=5e8f60531a09f357db38c4b646b1bbd29b97a891) by Adrian Johnson, but it has not yet had a chance to be part of any official release of Cairo. This bug affects all cairo PostScript users who have non-vertical or non-horizontal text they want to render. For example, it makes it impossible to view many of the postscript examples you can make with the PLplot "pscairo" device which is how I discovered the bug. Please apply this one-line patch to the Debian version of libcairo until the fix becomes part of an upstream release Alan W. Irwin -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages libcairo2 depends on: ii libc6 2.6.1-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.3.5-1+b1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-3 PNG library - runtime ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-1 X Rendering Extension client libra ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-6 compression library - runtime libcairo2 recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
