Hi, Futher tests and comparisons make me confident that with cc746214644deacd5233a1453ce660573af09443 needed the output of stretch aligns to the one produced in unstable's ghostscript (9.25~dfsg-2).
There is still the output changes produces, which might impact (build)-rdepends, so we might need to be extra careful here (although ps2ascii is possibly not widely used). I try to make my point with the following example runs, all done with the test1.ps (sha256sum: 7377c695e4b31e18bc37f84f9f63d511f0417240728924bc08f270fcc9ab67e2) from diffoscope. test1.txt is generated running with the appropriate version of ps2ascii and as well recording the sa256sum of it. jessie: ghostscript/9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u8 test1.txt: sha256sum: e28d37c7a2e9014c7533667d2be03df483c9e401d3b691c19e8b2fae82a72a4f >----cut---------cut---------cut---------cut---------cut---------cut----- > > >Today's date: February 28, 2016 > >1 >----cut---------cut---------cut---------cut---------cut---------cut----- stretch: ghostscript/9.20~dfsg-1 test1.txt: sha256sum: e28d37c7a2e9014c7533667d2be03df483c9e401d3b691c19e8b2fae82a72a4f >----cut---------cut---------cut---------cut---------cut---------cut----- > > >Today's date: February 28, 2016 > >1 >----cut---------cut---------cut---------cut---------cut---------cut----- stretch: ghostscript/9.20~dfsg-3.2+deb9u2 test1.txt: sha256sum: e28d37c7a2e9014c7533667d2be03df483c9e401d3b691c19e8b2fae82a72a4f >----cut---------cut---------cut---------cut---------cut---------cut----- > > >Today's date: February 28, 2016 > >1 >----cut---------cut---------cut---------cut---------cut---------cut----- stretch: ghostscript/9.20~dfsg-3.2+deb9u5 test1.txt: sha256sum: none This one is which caused this report, as it fails stretch: ghostscript/9.20~dfsg-3.2+deb9u6 test1.txt: sha256sum: d12feab3e64550bc146d180931c9310a4f95dae9809a82ccce068ed0a2e64a8f >----cut---------cut---------cut---------cut---------cut---------cut----- > Today’s date: February 28, 2016 > 1 >----cut---------cut---------cut---------cut---------cut---------cut----- sid: ghostscript/9.25~dfsg-2 test1.txt: sha256sum: d12feab3e64550bc146d180931c9310a4f95dae9809a82ccce068ed0a2e64a8f >----cut---------cut---------cut---------cut---------cut---------cut----- > Today’s date: February 28, 2016 > 1 >----cut---------cut---------cut---------cut---------cut---------cut----- So this would imply changed behaviour in a stable release, and thus need extra care to not break more (ps2ascii might not be widely used still). Regards, Salvatore
