Bug#909999: ghostscript (via pdf2ps) crashes on most inputs following upgrade to 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u9

2018-10-01 Thread Markus Koschany
Am 01.10.18 um 06:13 schrieb Berkeley Roshan Churchill: > Package: ghostscript > Version: 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u9 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > > Dear Maintainer, > >* What led up to the situation? > > Ghostscript was upgraded to 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u9 > >* What

Bug#909929: Regression: Error: /nocurrentpoint in --currentpoint--

2018-10-01 Thread Markus Koschany
Control: found 909929 9.06~dfsg-2+deb8u9 This issue is also present in Jessie. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#909076: ghostscript: ps2ascii crashes: Error: /typecheck in --.bind--

2018-09-29 Thread Markus Koschany
I have tried some of those commits: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git=search=HEAD=commit=txtwrite This one adds even more whitespace and moves the 1 character further to the right. http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=d0d4e282f98487ca2979edbaf6834d9341bcee53 This

Bug#909076: ghostscript: ps2ascii crashes: Error: /typecheck in --.bind--

2018-09-28 Thread Markus Koschany
Hi, Am 28.09.18 um 00:16 schrieb Salvatore Bonaccorso: > Hi Markus, > > On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 10:33:06PM +0200, Markus Koschany wrote: [...] >> The text is correctly displayed now in Jessie but the Stretch version >> shows Chinese characters instead. Hence I would apprecia

Bug#909076: ghostscript: ps2ascii crashes: Error: /typecheck in --.bind--

2018-09-27 Thread Markus Koschany
Hi, I believe I have found the solution to this problem. Apparently they changed the underlying device for ps2ascii to txtwrite last year. http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=2fa6beaa40144c592661a611bf35ff6f06d3354f If I apply this commit in Jessie, ps2ascii appears to work