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Bug#459930: marked as done (defining DEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=0 and DEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=0 make gs throw a configurationerror)

Your message dated Thu, 5 Jul 2012 15:26:04 +0100
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and subject line Closing orphan/obsolete bugs (gs and gs-aladdin)
has caused the Debian Bug report #459930,
regarding defining DEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=0 and DEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=0 make gs throw a configurationerror
to be marked as done.

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Package: gs
Version: 8.61.dfsg.1~svn8187-3
Severity: important


The ppd file for our HP printer adds -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=0  and
-dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=0 to the gs commandline. It seems that's common to
all HP printers.

Unfortunately this causes gs to throw a:
  Unrecoverable error: configurationerror in setpagedevice 

Which causes printing to fail :(

Now i don't know if this is a bug in the ppd file or in ghostscript. For
now i'm assuming ghostscript. If it is a ppd file error, please reassign
to hpijs-ppds

	Sjoerd
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (101, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gs depends on:
ii  ghostscript        8.61.dfsg.1~svn8187-3 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii  ghostscript-x      8.61.dfsg.1~svn8187-3 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF

gs recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

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Hello,

Thanks for your interest in Debian, and sorry that the bugs were not
attended in due time.

gs and gs-aladdin were removed from Debian unstable long ago [1], 8+
years, at least with that package name.

Many of these reports don't have new information for years, or never
were really followed up by the people involved at the time; some even
without any activity for 10 to 15 years.  Two or three of the reports
were indeed confirmed and cloned as bugs to the more recent
"ghostscript" package.

[1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gs.html
[2] http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gs-aladdin.html

The bugs are now orphan (no maintainer assigned), so they are not
going to be noticed by anybody and dealt with, and indeed many of them
were already marked as unreproducible or contain references to files
never provided, and needed to reproduce the bug.

For all of the reasons stated, I am thus closing the bug reports now.
If somebody wants to keep them open, please reconfirm that they are
still happening and assign them to a current package, so they are not
orphan and can really be tracked.

Regards.

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