On 23/12/2023 11:25, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
Hi Steven,
On 22.12.23 18:47, Steven Robbins wrote:
I noticed recently that ghostscript has been orphaned and decided I'll
volunteer to be maintainer.
great, so I can remove an item from my agenda :-).
>From the wiki site, I can see that ghostscript is listed as team maintained.
However, the control file doesn't currently list the team in the Maintainer
field -- whereas "cups" does. Is this just an individual maintainer preference
thing?
The repository is still within the Debian namespace, so the connection
is not that close as with cups.
Would it be OK if I changed the maintainer to the team email (and list
myself as uploader)?
Yes, that would be fine.
I suggest to have Ghostscript under the Debian printing team umbrella to
keep all the printing stack at one place. But Steven, mark yourself as
uploader then.
For the foreseeable future Ghostscript will stay a central part of the
printing stack, it is a mature PDF interpreter and also the only free
software PostScript interpreter. Applications send the print job data in
PDF and if the printer does not understands PDF, Ghostscript rasterizes
the data into Apple Raster, PWG Raster, CUPS Raster, PCL 5c/e or turns
it into other high-level formats as PostScript or PCL-XL.
Of what one finds in distros the only alternative of a PDF interpreter
is Poppler, if no PostScript interpreter is needed. But Ghostscript is
also more optimized for printing.
Till
Till
