Bug#799836: ps2pdf manpages say -dCompatibility not -dCompatibilityLevel
Package: ghostscript
Version: 9.16~dfsg-2
Severity: minor
Tags: upstream patch
This fifteen-year-old bugfix appears to be incomplete:
$ dgit clone ghostscript
$ cd ghostscript
$ git grep -B2 Compatibility=
doc/History6.htm-2000/05/20 20:53:04 lpd)
doc/History6.htm- - The -dCompatibilityLevel= switch was incorrectly identified in one
doc/History6.htm:place as -dCompatibility=. (doc/Ps2pdf.htm [1.11]: 2000/05/22 21:29:45 lpd)
Because it still appears in the manpages:
man/de/ps2pdf.1:.B \-dCompatibility=1.x
man/ps2pdf.1:.B \-dCompatibility=1.x
man/ps2pdf.1:-dCompatibility=1.3 - - |
Please correct this from -dCompatibility= to -dCompatibilityLevel=.
The old variable has no effect:
$ printf '%%!PS\n/Courier\n20 selectfont\n123 456 moveto\n(fnord) show\nshowpage\n' >example.ps
$ ps2pdf12 -dCompatibility=1.7 example.ps - | pdfinfo - | grep version
PDF version: 1.2
$ ps2pdf12 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.7 example.ps - | pdfinfo - | grep version
PDF version: 1.7
diff --git i/man/de/ps2pdf.1 w/man/de/ps2pdf.1
index dea6ad5..dfba2b4 100644
--- i/man/de/ps2pdf.1
+++ w/man/de/ps2pdf.1
@@ -46 +46 @@ oder den
-.B \-dCompatibility=1.x
+.B \-dCompatibilityLevel=1.x
diff --git i/man/ps2pdf.1 w/man/ps2pdf.1
index 6ed3c1f..f5b40b6 100644
--- i/man/ps2pdf.1
+++ w/man/ps2pdf.1
@@ -51 +51 @@ or use the
-.B \-dCompatibility=1.x
+.B \-dCompatibilityLevel=1.x
@@ -82 +82 @@ Converting as part of a pipe:
--dCompatibility=1.3 - - |
+-dCompatibilityLevel=1.3 - - |
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