On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:30:31PM +0100, Till Kamppeter wrote:
On 01/24/2011 09:04 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:I noticed that recent Ghostscript packaging for [Ubuntu] dropped the indirection of CMap files.I am not knowledgeable in DeFoMa, but recent changelog entry of gs-cjk-resource seems to indicate that even dropping DeFoMa it still makes sense to preserve the indirection.Ghostscript 9 made progress in releasing CMap files under a DFSG-free license, but still some of them need to be stripped, so I suspect some users still rely on gs-cjk-resource for their needs with Ghostscript.The use of Ghostscript's CMap file solves some non-CJK bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ghostscript/+bug/321932
This one seem to be an issue of broken DeFoMa hints, not lack of CMap files. Sure ripping out DeFoMa support helps there, but that is a different issue than the one I raise here, I believe.
http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691345
This one seems to also solvable by installing gs-cjk-resource.
My suggestion is symlinking the CMap files of gs-cjk-resource into the CMap directory of Ghostscript or by simply letting them get installed into Ghostscript's CMap directory. If the files are already shipped by Ghostscript, the gs-cjk-resource and/or cmap-adobe-japan1 packages will get superfluous and should get removed from Debian.
The origin of those CMap files is Adobe, not Ghostscript, and they are usable for other purposes that with Ghostscript.
Note that according to the licenses in the debian/copyright files of gs-cjk-resource and cmap-adobe-japan1 all contained files are free software provided by Adobe.
True. I will now make ghostscript depend on gs-cjk-resource - which will then recommend the others (not only the one for japanese).
As the files stripped from Ghostscript are non-free files from Adobe,
Another possibility is that licensing wasn't examined very closely and the exact same files should be stripped as has been in ghostscript after my relatively recent examination.
it looks like for me the gs-cjk-resource and cmap-adobe-japan1 do not provide the functionality of the stripped files.
I agree here.
The stripped proprietary CMap files of Ghostscript address only very old CJK PDF files, of the Adobe Acrobat Reader 3-6 generation. We would need a sample file to see whether gs-cjk-resource and cmap-adobe-japan1 would be able to make these files rendered.
Yes, that would be nice. Failing that I still see it as relevant to maintain integrity between ghostscript and gs-cjk-resource.
Are you certain your change do not negatively affect users of gs-cjk-resource? If so, please elaborate on what more detailed this change consist of, so that I might adopt it for the Debian packaging.My change's intention is to use Ghostscript's upstream source as far as possible, to make it easier to pass bugs reported to us to the upstream developers and also to get fixes and changes done and tested by the Ghostscript developers. The gs-cjk-resource and cmap-adobe-japan1 should be modified to not duplicate any of the files which ship with Ghostscript and to add files which are useful.
I find it more important to track true source of code than to keep most possible of Ghostscript released source bundles intact. So it seems we do not share intend here.
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