Ghostscript 10.08.0 release candidate - seems to break EPS-to-PDF conversion by dvisvgm

A release candidate of Ghostscript 10.08.0 had just been announced this morning on the gs-devel list. It's available at

https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl-downloads/releases/tag/gs10080rc1

with comment

> The 10.08.0 release removes a number of old, unmaintained and (at the time of this release) untestable and thus unmaintainable devices from the default builds, as a precursor to removal of the device sources in the next release.
> 
> This process will continue as development time allows.
> 
> If you rely on any of the removed devices and are willing to help testing them, please get in touch here or at: bugs.ghostscript.com

Looking rapidly, the interaction of TeX and Ghostscript (automatic PS to PDF conversion, transparency) seems to work just as before. But EPS to SVG conversion by dvisvgm (which uses libgs) seems broken.

Namely: I just compiled Ghostscript 10.07.1 (the current release) and 10.08.0rc1 (the release candidate) with

./configure --disable-compile-inits
make
sudo make install
make so
sudo make install-so

then I used dvisvgm to convert golfer.eps from the Ghostscript source to SVG with

dvisvgm --verbosity=7 --eps golfer.eps --output=%f-eps.svg

With Ghostscript 10.07.1 I get

% dvisvgm --verbosity=7 --eps golfer.eps --output=%f-eps.svg
processing EPS file
  graphic size: 572.1375pt x 697.60625pt (570bp x 695bp)
  output written to golfer-eps.svg
file converted in 0.431633 seconds

and a valid SVG file.

With Ghostscript 10.08.0 I get

% dvisvgm --verbosity=7 --eps golfer.eps --output=%f-eps.svg
processing EPS file
  graphic size: 0pt x 0pt (0bp x 0bp)
  output written to golfer-eps.svg
file converted in 0.437152 seconds

and an empty SVG file.

I won't be available for further testing if need be for the next two days.

Bruno