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Package: dhelp
Version: 0.6.24
Hi,
dhelp uses pstotext to display PostScript files on a console or in a
terminal.
pstotext stopped working with the recent update to Ghostscript 9.22.
This is not only due to the deprecation of "-dDELAYBIND" in Ghostscript
(which was withdrawn in 9.23) but also by an additional problem in
Ghostscript.
As pstotext did not get maintained upstream for years it is better to
drop it and replace it by the ps2txt utility of Ghostscript. ps2txt's
compatibility with the Ghostscript it comes with is assured as they are
maintained together.
pstotext is only used by dhelp, so to eliminate it from the distro it is
enough to update the appropriate command lines in dhelp and the
autopkgtest in the doc-rfc package (Debian bug #895541).
See also Debian bug #895513 about the pstotext issue.
Attached is my patch on the dhelp package as I have applied it in Ubuntu
(0.6.24-0ubuntu1).
Till
--- a/scripts/conv-pstotext
+++ b/scripts/conv-pstotext
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
#
# $1 = Input file, $2 = Output file
-2>/dev/null pstotext -output "${2}" "${1}"
+2>/dev/null ps2txt "${1}" "${2}"
EXITVAL=$?
if [ ${EXITVAL} -ne 0 ]; then
echo "Error converting file: ${1}"
--- a/src/dsearch
+++ b/src/dsearch
@@ -148,17 +148,17 @@
$text = `/usr/bin/pdftotext "$file" -`;
}
else {
- # pstotext is a dependency, so this should never fail, but we
+ # ghostscript is a dependency, so ps2txt should never fail, but we
# recommend the user to install xpdf-utils instead, to get
# pdftotext (better extraction quality and much faster)
- $text = file_to_text("/usr/bin/pstotext '$file'", "PDF", "xpdf-utils");
+ $text = file_to_text("/usr/bin/ps2txt '$file'", "PDF", "xpdf-utils");
}
}
elsif ($ext =~ /dvi/) {
$text = file_to_text("/usr/bin/catdvi '$file'", "DVI", "catdvi");
}
elsif ($ext =~ /ps/) {
- $text = file_to_text("/usr/bin/pstotext '$file'", "Postscript", "pstotext");
+ $text = file_to_text("/usr/bin/ps2txt '$file'", "Postscript", "ghostscript");
}
else {
open F, $file;
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: dhelp
Source-Version: 0.6.25
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
dhelp, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 895543@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Iain Lane <laney@debian.org> (supplier of updated dhelp package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)
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Hash: SHA512
Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 10:56:58 +0100
Source: dhelp
Binary: dhelp
Architecture: source
Version: 0.6.25
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org>
Changed-By: Iain Lane <laney@debian.org>
Description:
dhelp - online help system
Closes: 895543
Changes:
dhelp (0.6.25) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* QA upload.
.
[ Till Kamppeter ]
* Replaced the call of pstotext by ps2txt as pstotext upstream
is unmaintained for years and stopped working with Ghostscript whereas
ps2txt is part of ghostscript. (Closes: #895543)
.
[ Iain Lane ]
* Add a direct dependency on ghostscript for the above, and remove pstotext
as it is no longer used.
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