Re: Bug#940127: ghostscript makes c2esp autopkgtest timeout

[Paul Newall <p.newalls@ntlworld.com>]

All,

I was the author of c2esp. It's hard for me to test it now because I no 
longer have kodak printers.

I'm wondering if other backends also use the gstoraster filter (I'd 
expect there would be others?) and do they also cause this error? Or did 
I do something unusual in c2espC that's contributing to the problem?

Paul Newall

On 21/09/2019 15:24, Brian Potkin wrote:
> On Sat 21 Sep 2019 at 10:22:22 +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Using snapshot.debian.org:
> >
> > * ghostscript 9.27~dfsg-3.1 works
> > * ghostscript 9.28~~rc1~dfsg-1 and all the later versions segfault
> >
> > So…
> >
> > There's clearly a regression in ghostscript 9.28 that started segfaulting in
> > the c2esp filter chain. But I can't manage to reproduce it outside of the
> > "cups + c2esp + cups-filters (gstoraster) + ghostscript" environment.
> >
> > Brian; Till: any idea?
> No ideas from me really. I too get gstoraster stopping when attempting
> to print /usr/share/cups/data/form_russian.pdf; but the same is true for
> form_english.pdf.
>
> OTOH, /usr/share/doc/shared-mime-info/shared-mime-info-spec.pdf and text
> files complete successfully.
>
> Regards,
>
> Brian.