Switched the autopkgtest of doc-rfc from pstotext to Ghostscript's ps2txt. pstotext is unmaintained upstream for years and so one cannot expect a fix for Ghostscript compatibility on it. ps2txt is part of Ghostscript and so kept compatible with the Ghostscript it comes with by the Ghostscript upstream maintainers.
pstotext is only used by dhelp and nothing else. It is used in the autopkgtest of doc-rfc to assure dhelp compatibility. Switching the pstotext command lines to ps2txt also in dhelp eliminates the need of pstotext altogether. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to ghostscript in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762778 Title: ghostscript 9.22 breaks pstotext: Unrecoverable error: undefined in DELAYBIND Status in doc-rfc package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Status in ghostscript package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Status in pstotext package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Status in ghostscript package in Debian: Unknown Bug description: I noticed after my poppler upload that the "doc-rfc" tests are failing https://objectstorage.prodstack4-5.canonical.com/v1/AUTH_77e2ada1e7a84929a74ba3b87153c0ac /autopkgtest-bionic/bionic/amd64/d/doc- rfc/20180410_090135_46f84@/log.gz These tests basically zcat a ps.gz file to pstotext. It's this that is broken. See: laney@nightingale> echo "" | pstotext -debug GPL Ghostscript 9.22 (2017-10-04) Copyright (C) 2017 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. *** WARNING - the DELAYBIND command has been deprecated, and will be removed in the next version. For now you can restore the behaviour by using -dREALLYDEALYBIND but if you require continued use of this command you should contact the Ghostscript developers. Commercial customers of Artifex should email their support contact, free users are encouraged to talk to us on the #ghostscript IRC channel on irc.freenode.net. Unrecoverable error: undefined in DELAYBIND laney@nightingale> echo $? 3 but downgrading ghostscript libgs9 libgs9-common to the previous version 9.21~dfsg+1-0ubuntu3 fixes it: laney@nightingale> echo "" | pstotext -debug GPL Ghostscript 9.21 (2017-03-16) Copyright (C) 2017 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. QI 100 0 0 -100 0 84200 laney@nightingale> echo $? 0 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/doc-rfc/+bug/1762778/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
