Re: Ghostscript/GhostPDL 9.27 Release Candidate 1

Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]> Thu, 28 Mar 2019 02:15:26 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.printing.ghostscript.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Quoting Chris Liddell (2019-03-27 13:41:34)
> I have created archives (and Ghostscript Windows installers) for the
> first public release candidates for Ghostscript and GhostPDL 9.27, and
> they are available here:
> 
> https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl-downloads/releases/tag/9.27rc1
> 
> Please give them a try on your system if you're interested in helping
> test the release-in-progress. Your feedback is appreciated.
> 
> This release involves making a large number of non-standard operators
> only intended for internal use inaccessible to "user" Postscript jobs.
> Tools that use heavily non-standard Postscript may be affected by this.
> If, in your testing, you find such tools, we'd appreciate it if you
> could encourage the tools author to contact us to the discuss the issue
> (the best places are #ghostscript on freenode or the gs-devel list).

Unfortunately Debian builds of the new prerelease segfaults when simply 
executing "gs --version".

Here is a build log from a git snapshot few days ago: 
https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=ghostscript&arch=amd64&ver=9.27%7E%7Edc1%7Edfsg-1&stamp=1553515391&raw=0

Build logs for the actual prerelease will emerge within an hour at 
https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=ghostscript&suite=experimental

I can make the coredump for amd64 build available if needed, or examine 
it if you help tell me how.

Debian builds link against system shared libraries, and apply a set of 
patches: 
https://salsa.debian.org/printing-team/ghostscript/tree/master/debian/patches


 - Jonas

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