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Bug#1101998: marked as done (ghostscript: pdf2dsc has been removed, which breaks preview in auctex)

Your message dated Thu, 08 May 2025 08:55:42 -0500
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and subject line Re: ghostscript: pdf2dsc has been removed, which breaks preview in auctex
has caused the Debian Bug report #1101998,
regarding ghostscript: pdf2dsc has been removed, which breaks preview in auctex
to be marked as done.

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Package: ghostscript
Version: 10.05.0~dfsg-1
Severity: minor
Tags: upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: dpt@bostoncoop.net

This release of ghostscript has removed the 'pdf2dsc' utility, which
preview-latex (now a part of the auctex package) depends on.

There's discussion on the gs-devel/auctex-devel mailing lists, which
you can see some of starting here:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/auctex-devel/2025-03/msg00007.html

To summarize the thread, it seems that 'pdf2dsc' is an ancient utility
that only by some miracle still works with the current Ghostscript
(10.05). (It is used by preview-latex to produce inline images inside
an emacs buffer for performance reasons.) This has been the case for
some time, but it was only recently removed from gs upstream.

The Ghostscript developers have no interest in maintaining it, but
restored it as a stop-gap in the upstream Git repository, to be
released in due course at the next public release (scheduled for
September).

There's also quite a lot of mistrust and talking past each other in
that thread.

If Debian does anything in the short term, it would be to pull the
relevant change, as described here:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/auctex-devel/2025-03/msg00018.html

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers oldstable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.12.20-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages ghostscript depends on:
ii  libc6    2.41-6
ii  libgs10  10.05.0~dfsg-1

ghostscript recommends no packages.

Versions of packages ghostscript suggests:
ii  texlive-binaries  2024.20240313.70630+ds-6

-- no debconf information

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Hello Dylan,

Apologies for the delay in responding.  Debian's bts doesn't reliably send 
emails to me when bugs are reported.

On Thursday, April 3, 2025 1:55:31 p.m. Central Daylight Saving Time Dylan 
Thurston wrote:

> To summarize the thread, it seems that 'pdf2dsc' is an ancient utility
> that only by some miracle still works with the current Ghostscript
> (10.05). (It is used by preview-latex to produce inline images inside
> an emacs buffer for performance reasons.) This has been the case for
> some time, but it was only recently removed from gs upstream.
> 
> The Ghostscript developers have no interest in maintaining it, but
> restored it as a stop-gap in the upstream Git repository, to be
> released in due course at the next public release (scheduled for
> September).

Well, fortunately, version 10.05.1 was just released and does include pdf2dsc!  
So I can close this bug now.

-Steve

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