Bug#912627: asymptote: Asymptote crashes on attempt to create pdf file

To: Hilmar Preuße <hille42@web.de>, 912627@bugs.debian.org
Cc: Dmitry Bogatov <KAction@debian.org>
Subject: Bug#912627: asymptote: Asymptote crashes on attempt to create pdf file
From: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 20:12:34 +0900
Message-id: <[🔎] 20181105111234.GA15470@bulldog.preining.info>
Reply-to: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>, 912627@bugs.debian.org
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On Mon, 05 Nov 2018, Hilmar Preuße wrote:
> Nevertheless I tend to see it as bug if asy generates input files, which
> needs a special mode in gs to be processed successfully. Either asy should
> call gs w/ -nosafe by default (not!) or it should generate generic code,
> which can be processed w/ option -nosafe.

*If* it is possible to generate generic code, I agree with you. But I am
not sure that this is possible at all.

Please bring it up upstream, and let us hear upstream's opinion.

Thanks

Norbert

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- Bug#912627: asymptote: Asymptote crashes on attempt to create pdf file
  - From: Dmitry Bogatov <KAction@debian.org>
- Bug#912627: asymptote: Asymptote crashes on attempt to create pdf file
  - From: Hilmar Preuße <hille42@web.de>
- Bug#912627: asymptote: Asymptote crashes on attempt to create pdf file
  - From: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
- Bug#912627: asymptote: Asymptote crashes on attempt to create pdf file
  - From: Hilmar Preuße <hille42@web.de>

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