Syncing Ghostscript with Ubuntu
Hi,
I am syncing most printing-related packages between Debian and Ubuntu to
reduce packaging work.
One of the packages I was not able to sync was Ghostscript, as openjpeg2
did not pass the Ubuntu security requirements:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/711061
In Ubuntu the packages are in two repositories, Main and Universe, where
Main is covered by commercial support for appropriate customers,
Universe not, and so it must be possible to install a system of only
packages from Main. This means that a package in Main cannot depend on a
package in Universe. Main also has much higher security requirements
than Universe.
A new package gets into Universe and for getting it into Main you have
to post a "Main Inclusion Request" (MIR), telling whether the package is
well maintained upstream, has security-relevant features like SUID
executables, has CVEs and whether they got fixed in a timely manner, ...
Above-mentioned bug report is such a MIR, for libopenjpeg2, one of the
dependencies of the Debian package of Ghostscript. In Ubuntu Ghostscript
is in Main, therefore I can only let it depend on libopenjpeg2 if
libopenjpeg2 also had been in Main, which was not the case. Therefore I
had to keep a Ubuntu delta, letting the Ubuntu package use the
libopenjpeg2 which the Ghostscript upstream maintainers included with
Ghostscript, which is massaged by the professional programmers of
Artifex and so provides the required security.
Now, 9 years after this MIR got posted and 7 years after my first
comment (when I looked into syncing Ghostscript for the first time)
finally theupstream developers fulfilled our security requirements and
the MIR passed, libopenjpeg2 moved into Main and I was able to sync
Ghostscript.
So now we have 9.50~dfsg-5 in Ubuntu.
But unfortunately, I overlooked another Ubuntu delta. The Ubuntu
Ghostscript has some extra lines in debian/rules to make Ghostscript
build with -O2 instead of -O3 on ppc64el as (at least on Ubuntu) gcc
gets stuck on one file:
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DEB_HOST_ARCH ?= $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH)
ifneq (,$(filter $(DEB_HOST_ARCH),ppc64el))
export DEB_CFLAGS_MAINT_STRIP=-O3
export DEB_CFLAGS_MAINT_PREPEND=-O2
endif
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See
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ghostscript/+bug/1862053
Could you add this change to the Debian package, so that I can really
sync Ghostscript?
Thanks in advance
Till
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