Bug#350553: ghostscript: major slowdown after upgrade

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

tags 350553 - moreinfo
reassign 350553 ghostscript
found 350553 gs-esp/8.15.1.dfsg.1-1
found 350553 ghostscript/8.62.dfsg.1-2.1
found 350553 ghostscript/8.71~dfsg2-6.1
quit

Marc Lehmann wrote:

> I downgraded and of course had the speed back then, but now i upgraded to
> squeeze and the slowdown is as horrible as before.
>
> also, this seems to be a very common issue, there are lots of reports about
> people having printing issues because gs takes a long time now, for ps that
> was fast to print before. it seems upstream thinks that this is a
> ubuntu/debian issue, and some people have reported that downloading and
> building upstream results in a fast ghostscript.

Thanks, Marc.  I hope I can find time to look into it (though anyone
else interested is welcome to test old packages and sift through
debdiffs, too).