Public bug reported: This is not necessarily a bug, but a version mismatch. a2ping 2.77p uses gs extension which was removed in gs 9.22. As Ubuntu Bionic has gs 9.22, a2ping 2.77p does not work there.
a2ping was updated by its maintainer to 2.83p, which is compatible with gs 9.22 or later as well as with old versions of gs, and has been in upstream CTAN since mid-March. See: https://ctan.org/pkg/a2ping It is included in TeX Live 2018 just released. a2ping 2.83p contains feature upgrade and some reorganization in packaging. I'm not sure if upgrading to 2.83p is acceptable for Bionic, so appended is a minimal patch to update 2.77p to 2.77p1. This patch was acked by the maintainer. This issue was first observed on Fedora 27 when gs was upgraded from 9.20 to 9.22. It was reported at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1530268 I provided the same patch there, but it has not been packaged successfully there yet. I'd appreciate if a2ping could restore compatibility on Ubuntu Bionic. Thanks! Akira ** Affects: texlive-extra (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Patch added: "Minimal patch to update a2ping.pl 2.77p to 2.77p1" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1768062/+attachment/5130859/+files/a2ping.patch -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1768062 Title: a2ping 2.77p is not compatible with Ghostscript 9.22 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texlive-extra/+bug/1768062/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
