[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1799068] Re: gs 9.25 in ubuntu package crashes (but not same version from git repo)

$ apt policy libgs9-common libgs9-common: Installed: 9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Candidate: 9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Version table: *** 9.25~dfsg+1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 500 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 Packages 500

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1799068] [NEW] gs 9.25 in ubuntu package crashes (but not same version from git repo)

Public bug reported: To reproduce this, in a fully updated Ubuntu 18.0.4, download https://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tests/xhtml/testfiles/resources/pdf/dummy.pdf and run: $ pdf2ps dummy.pdf It should generate a ps, but it crashes instead. LONG DESCRIPTION: I recently updated my Ubuntu 16.0.4 to

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1799068] Re: gs 9.25 in ubuntu package crashes (but not same version from git repo)

Some maybe relevant info from the uri I posted (https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/59952): Comment by Martin Pietsch (mpietsch) - Friday, 07 September 2018, 09:31 GMT These three patches from the ghostscript git repository solve the problem: