https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=724383
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=724383#c2
--- Comment #2 from Johannes Meixner 2011-10-18 07:29:32 UTC ---
FYI:
Regarding the "ghostscript" 9.02 package from "home:jsmeix":
This is my personal playground which is severely incompatible
with our official "ghostscript-library" package, see
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=ghostscript&project=home%3Ajsmeix
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ghostscript
Plain upstream Ghostscript.
Probably severely incompatible with
our official ghostscript-library package.
Do not install it!
I (http://en.opensuse.org/User:Jsmeix)
have it only to play around with Ghostscript.
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Volker Kuhlmann,
do you use this package?
If yes, I would be very interested to get some feedback
how it works in your environment.
Of course it is not forbidden to install ghostscript 9.02
from "home:jsmeix" for an experienced user who can help himself
if something goes wrong.
Background information:
As soon as possible (but for openSUSE 12.1 I had no time)
I like to do with Ghostscript the same as I did in the past
with sane-backends, cups, gutenprint, cups-drivers,...:
Drop all our own patches to enforce a
reset to 100% compliance with upstream!
See the cups RPM changelog output:
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* Wed Jan 27 2010 jsmeix@suse.de
- CUPS 1.3 -> 1.4 version upgrade and major cleanup:
For the CUPS upstream changes see the CHANGES.txt file.
Such a major version upgrade is the perfect chance
to drop almost all our own patches to enforce a
reset to almost 100% compliance with upstream.
Here our openSUSE CUPS versions and their number of patches
(i.e. the "Patch" entries in the cups.spec files):
CUPS version 1.2.12 in openSUSE 10.3: 37
CUPS version 1.3.7 in openSUSE 11.0: 29
CUPS version 1.3.9 in openSUSE 11.1: 26
CUPS version 1.3.11 in openSUSE 11.2: 17
Of course this includes patches with backported bug fixes
via our maintenance but nevertheless there were really
too much openSUSE specific patches.
Therefore I would like to provide CUPS 1.4 "as is" to the
furthest possible extent (there are still 6 patches left).
Then let's see if we get bug reports because of this.
I did such a reset to 100% compliance with upstream
already in the past for sane-backends and guess what:
I got no single bug report at all because of this.
I guess what they do at upstream is actually not so bad ;-)
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If you like you could help me to do the same also for
Ghostscript for openSUSE after 12.1.
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