** Changed in: ghostscript (Debian)
Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix
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Title:
ghostscript 9.22 breaks pstotext: Unrecoverable error:
This bug was fixed in the package doc-rfc - 20170121-1ubuntu1
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doc-rfc (20170121-1ubuntu1) bionic; urgency=medium
* In the autopkgtest replaced the call of pstotext by ps2txt
as pstotext upstream is unmaintained for years and stopped
working with Ghostscript whereas
** Changed in: ghostscript (Debian)
Status: Unknown => Confirmed
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Title:
ghostscript 9.22 breaks pstotext: Unrecoverable error: undefined
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
** Also affects: doc-rfc (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: pstotext (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Won't Fix
** Changed in: doc-rfc (Ubuntu)
Status: New => In Progress
** Changed in: doc-rfc (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in:
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #895513
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=895513
** Also affects: ghostscript (Debian) via
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=895513
Importance: Unknown
Status: Unknown
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Till, would you please take a look and fix pstotext then please?
Your upload of ghostscript to Ubuntu broke a package in Ubuntu. I think
that there is a responsibility of the uploader to take care of things
broken by their upload.
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Seems that Ghostscript has deprecated DELAYBIND. I really do not know
what DELAYBIND is good for in Ghostscript and AFAIK it is not used in
packages which I maintain upstream, for example cups-filters.
pstotext is not part of cups-filters nor an OpenPrinting project. It
seems to be a free
