Re: hplip build from Salsa?

2024-04-20 Thread Steven Robbins
On Saturday, April 20, 2024 10:59:24 A.M. CDT Thorsten Alteholz wrote: > Hi Steve, > > On 20.04.24 17:28, Steven Robbins wrote: > > I closed the Salsa repo and tried my usual "gpb buildpackage" routine. To > > my surprise that resulted in an error about uncommitted

hplip build from Salsa?

2024-04-20 Thread Steven Robbins
Hi, Reading through the recent "Status of the t64 transition" [1] message, I noticed hplip on the list of packages that need help. My understanding is that the main issue is FTBFS [2] likely due to recent change in dpkg behaviour. I figured I'd see if I could fix it. I closed the Salsa repo

Bug#1065396: ghostscript: Coordinate uploads for German man page transfer

2024-03-04 Thread Steven Robbins
On Monday, March 4, 2024 11:14:37 A.M. CST Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Hello Steven, > > Am Sun, Mar 03, 2024 at 10:25:45PM -0600 schrieb Steven Robbins: > > Thanks for the note! > > > > On Sun, 3 Mar 2024 19:59:28 + Helge Kreutzmann > > > I wil

Bug#870679: ghostscript: Annotate debian/conrol for DEB_BUILD_PROFILES=stage1

2024-03-03 Thread Steven Robbins
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo Hello, I'm not sure what is being requested. On Thu, 3 Aug 2017 18:51:10 -0700 Daniel Schepler wrote: > Source: ghostscript > Version: 9.21~dfsg-1 > Severity: wishlist > > It would be nice if the source package could be updated with build > profile annotations

Bug#1065396: ghostscript: Coordinate uploads for German man page transfer

2024-03-03 Thread Steven Robbins
Hello! Thanks for the note! On Sun, 3 Mar 2024 19:59:28 + Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Package: ghostscript > Version: 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u3 > Severity: normal > > Hello Steve, > ghostscript used to contain German man pages, however, they were not > properly maintained. As detailed in [1]

Bug#612194: gs: Strange printouts with Nec P6 -- might be typo in necp2x.upp

2024-02-28 Thread Steven Robbins
Control: -1 tags + moreinfo I'm having trouble understanding the content of this bug. On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 12:54:55 +0200 (CEST) Nils Bokermann wrote: > When using magicfilter with Nec P6 filter, a gs commandline with @necp2x.upp is > fired up. This file says (line 2) > -sDEVICE=uniprint >

Bug#661589: [ghostscript] gs error: /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftoraster failed --> error log attached

2024-02-28 Thread Steven Robbins
Control: -1 tags + moreinfo On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:43:25 -0300 ASD Consultoria wrote: > Em Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:20:01 +0100 > "Didier 'OdyX' Raboud" escreveu: > > > b) once "locally" from the stable machine (that's the case I'm > > interested in) > > Attached file error. I'm sorry that no

Bug#731140: ghostscript: on PDF files with embedded fonts, ps2pdf changes the way fonts are rendered

2024-02-28 Thread Steven Robbins
Control: tags -1 +moreinfo On Mon, 2 Dec 2013 13:54:19 +0100 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Package: ghostscript > Version: 9.05~dfsg-8 > Severity: normal > > ps2pdf should not change the embedded fonts except by optimizing them > (e.g. compressing them), but a simple test shows that it changes the >

Bug#1063563: ghostscript: ps2epsi fails with Error: /undefined in /finddevice

2024-02-28 Thread Steven Robbins
Control: -1 tags + help confirmed On Sun, 18 Feb 2024 14:10:37 +0100 Stephan Böttcher wrote: > > Tha attached ps file was made with [ ... ] Thank you. I can reproduce the ps2epsi failure. I have no idea what is wrong. -Steve signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Bug#721137: ghostscript: ps2pdf produces bad pdf on x86_64 (unreadeable text)

2024-02-25 Thread Steven Robbins
I've just tested with ghostscript 10.02.1 and found the situation remains as described in 2015, below. Specifically, I checked that: * the four files attached in message #15 all render without issues using evince * tp2A_scilab_N1.pdf renders fine with xpdf, but many warning are emitted on the

ghostscript ships dangling symlink /usr/share/ghostscript/X.Y/Resource/CIDFSubst/DroidSansFallback.ttf

2024-02-25 Thread Steven Robbins
Hello, I've recently adopted ghostscript, so I can't answer the direct question of why libgsN-common ships a dangling symlink. I am curious what folks think of this. It's not clear to me whether there are bad consequences of a dangling symlink. For example is it treated differently than a

Bug#942055: ghostscript in buster partly broken on armel?

2024-02-24 Thread Steven Robbins
On Wed, 05 Feb 2020 16:13:51 +0100 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > I maintain the Ghostscript package, but am not skilled in the various > > > tools using Ghostscript. It seems more sensible to me to first > > > investigate toolchain problems further back in the chain, where (I > > > assume)

Bug#503191: pdfwrite: AutoRotatePages=/None ignored, PDF rotate

2024-02-24 Thread Steven Robbins
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:31:07 +0200 martin f krafft wrote: > Package: ghostscript > Version: 8.62.dfsg.1-3.1 > Severity: normal > File: /usr/bin/gs > > When I run > > gs -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dAutoRotatePages=/None -sOutputFile='graphs/ snowball-sampling.pdf' - -c quit <

Bug#1063563: ghostscript: ps2epsi fails with Error: /undefined in /finddevice

2024-02-17 Thread Steven Robbins
On Fri, 09 Feb 2024 16:08:00 +0100 Stephan Boettcher wrote: > Package: ghostscript > Version: 10.02.1~dfsg-3 > Severity: normal > > The version 10.0.0~dfsg-10 works and produces the expected output. > 10.01.2~dfsg-1 works as well. > > 10.02.1~dfsg-3 does not: > > $ ps2epsi hvosc-doc_sch.ps

Bug#790562: Ghostscript: File has unbalanced q/Q operators (too many Q's)

2024-01-07 Thread Steven Robbins
On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 09:17:06 +0100 supp...@compress-pdf.co.uk wrote: > package: ghostscript > version: 9.06~dfsg-2 > > When running ghostscript, the following errors are being generated in > great quantity: > stderr: " File has unbalanced q/Q operators (too many Q's) " > > resulting

Bug#704112: ghostscript: gs -dEPSCrop doesn't work

2024-01-07 Thread Steven Robbins
On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 02:21:25 +0100 Sebastien Desreux wrote: > I do realize that the PS file above is not an EPS. Yet this option also worked > for PS files with AFPL gs and then ESP gs. Besides, a search for "crop" on > http://ghostscript.com/doc/7.07/Use.htm > yielded only the EPS case.

Bug#731164: ghostscript: ps2pdf makes highlighted/annotated text unreadable by poppler-based PDF viewers

2024-01-07 Thread Steven Robbins
On Saturday, January 6, 2024 11:58:56 A.M. CST Vincent Lefevre wrote: > But all xpdf, > zathura and atril have no issues with the file generated by the > current ps2pdf. This confirms a good change in ghostscript. Excellent! Thanks for the additional testing and feedback! -Steve

pstotext - OK to remove completely?

2024-01-06 Thread Steven Robbins
Hi, I randomly bumped into a reference to "pstotext" just now -- from ps2ascii manpage. The pstotext package was removed from testing in 2018 due to grave bug https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=895513 The last upstream release was 2004 and there is no trace of upstream on the

Bug#810080: ghostscript: Infinite loop filling server logs with "File has unbalanced q/Q operators"

2024-01-06 Thread Steven Robbins
tags -1 + moreinfo thanks On Wed, 06 Jan 2016 11:20:41 +0100 Stephan Grossberndt wrote: > Package: ghostscript > Version: 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u1 > * What led up to the situation? > > "gs -o proper.pdf -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress programmheft_2016.pdf" with

Re: Re: Picking up orphaned ghostscript

2023-12-26 Thread Steven Robbins
Hi Thorsten, I definitely don't mean to step on toes! If you prefer to maintain ghostscript, that is more than fine with me. I don't have any special connection to it -- other than it showed up as an orphaned build-dep on some other package of mine. -Steve signature.asc Description: This

Picking up orphaned ghostscript

2023-12-22 Thread Steven Robbins
Hi, I noticed recently that ghostscript has been orphaned and decided I'll volunteer to be maintainer. When I contacted Jonas Smedegaard about it, he mentioned joining the debian-printing team. So I'll make the request on Salsa shortly. >From the wiki site, I can see that ghostscript is