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Bug#175267: marked as done (gs: epstopdf orientation incorrect)

Your message dated Thu, 5 Jul 2012 15:26:04 +0100
with message-id <CAPQ4b8kkvW2C65NtVY71GFdiwf5O1D7AsHZUFK7mRdR5KstUFA@mail.gmail.com>
and subject line Closing orphan/obsolete bugs (gs and gs-aladdin)
has caused the Debian Bug report #175267,
regarding gs: epstopdf orientation incorrect
to be marked as done.

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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: gs
Version: 7.05-3
Severity: normal

A problem in the orientation of generated pdf files from
epstopdf has appeared between 6.53 (works) and 7.05-1
(and -3).

Samples are at http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/nspring/gs/
nametree.dot is the input source for dot.
nametree.eps is the generated output. 
(dot -Tps nametree.dot > nametree.eps)
nametree-6.53.pdf is the generated pdf file on a machine 
with gs-6.53 installed.  
(epstopdf nametree.eps --outfile=nametree-6.53.pdf)
nametree-7.05.pdf is the generated pdf file on a machine
with gs-7.05 installed.  This is not the only difference
between software on the two systems, but both systems have
the same (upstream) version of tetex-bin, which is where 
epstopdf is kept.

The .eps file already has what appears to be a valid
'%%PageOrientation: Portrait' tag.

My goal is to be able to build a tex document using latex
and dvips for the postscript version and pdflatex for the
pdf version; epstopdf appeared to be the standard way of
providing pdflatex with pdf graphics. 7.05 seems to rotate
the pdf, not only for viewing in xpdf, gv, and acroread,
but also as rendered by pdflatex.

In the meantime, I will just use the machine with 6.53 for 
building pdf files.

dark:~/www/gs> pdfinfo nametree-6.53.pdf 
Producer:     GNU Ghostscript 6.53
Tagged:       no
Pages:        1
Encrypted:    no
Page size:    488 x 204 pts
File size:    2494 bytes
Optimized:    no
PDF version:  1.3

dark:~/www/gs> pdfinfo nametree-7.05.pdf 
Author:       (nspring) Neil Spring,433,685-4459,675-8371
Creator:      dot version 1.7.16 (Wed Feb  6 02:14:52 MST 2002)
Producer:     GNU Ghostscript 7.05
Tagged:       no
Pages:        1
Encrypted:    no
Page size:    488 x 204 pts
File size:    6780 bytes
Optimized:    no
PDF version:  1.3

I sent this bug to gs as it's the code that changed.
It may be the case that dot is generating bad postscript
(so should be reassigned to graphviz) or that epstopdf
isn't calling gs correctly (reassign to tetex-bin).
I didn't find a similar bug assigned to either of those
packages.  

This doesn't happen for every file generated by dot:
I seem to have stumbled on a boundary case that I can't
seem to fix from within dot itself.

Thanks for your hard work with these crucial packages.

-neil

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux harborcoat 2.4.19-686 #1 Mon Nov 18 23:59:03 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages gs depends on:
ii  gs-common                     0.3.3      Common files for different Ghostsc
ii  libc6                         2.3.1-8    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgimpprint1                 4.2.4-1    Gimp-Print printer drivers - core 
ii  libpaper1                     1.1.12     Library for handling paper charact
ii  libpng12-0                    1.2.5-8    PNG library - runtime
ii  xlibs                         4.2.1-3    X Window System client libraries
ii  zlib1g                        1:1.1.4-6  compression library - runtime

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--- Begin Message --- 
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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