Bug#600684: pdfcrop: Fails to crop due to bug in ghostscript printing bounding box information twice

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

severity 600684 wishlist
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# 2010/08/16 v1.24: * Workaround added for buggy ghostscript ports
#                     that print the BoundingBox data twice.
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# not sure if this is in TL 2010
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tags 600684 + fixed-upstream
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On 21.10.10 Norbert Preining (preining@logic.at) wrote:
> On Do, 21 Okt 2010, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:

Hi,

> > I got now some feedback from the users at our site and the backported
> > patch seems to be ok. I have raised again the severity to 'important'
> 
> Having an ok patch does not mean the severity is important.
> 
> It was originally important as submitted by you, and Himar (I think)
> adjusted it correctly to normal, as this is only a small part
> of the whole package, so it does not render it useless.
> 
I'd rather say that issue is wishlist as the submitter requested us
to build a work around for a bug in a different package....unless
anybody proves that multiple bounding boxes are legal.

> Actually, one can even say that is not my problem, ghostscript should
> be fixed!
> 
ACK.

> > Would be really great to have pdfcrop working again in Lenny!
> 
> I don't have time to prepare updated packages for lenny atm, if one
> of the others here on the list can take that, fine.
> 
I don't think it is worth to upload a new package for that bug. If
one needs a fix on his box he should install the fixed version of
pdfcrop into /usr/local/bin.

Thanks,
  Hilmar
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