Comment # 15 on bug 1082896 from Johannes Meixner

Stefan Br�ns
many thanks for all your valuable help and contributions!

I updated Ghostscript 9.23rc1 in OBS Printing accordingly:
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$ osc submitrequest -m 'Ghostscript 9.23rc1 uses lcms2 from SUSE and \
 does no longer require any fonts packages (boo#1082896)' \
 home:jsmeix:branches:Printing ghostscript Printing ghostscript
created request id 587895

$ osc request accept ... 587895
Result of change request state: ok
openSUSE:Factory 
Forward this submit to it? ([y]/n)n
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Some quick tests on my openSUSE Leap 42.3 seem to work o.k.
also without ghostscript-fonts-std and ghostscript-fonts-other.


Using lcms2 from SUSE instead of what Ghostscript provides
is a bit unexpected because usually what Ghostscript provides
is intentionally provided by Ghostscript because Ghostscript needs
some specific adaptions and enhancements to make things work
as intended by Ghostscript which means not using what Ghostscript
provides can result issues at our users i.e. things may "just build"
for us but also "just fail" (in this or that cases) for our users.

But using lcms2 from SUSE instead of what Ghostscript provides
is an exception because that is what Ghostscript recommends
https://ghostscript.com/pipermail/gs-devel/2018-March/010061.html

But also note that using lcms2 from SUSE is not meant forever
so that at some later time we should switch back to using what
Ghostscript provides according to what the ghostscript-9.23rc1
source file doc/News.htm reads:
 "We will maintain compatibility between Ghostscript
  and LCMS2 for a time, but not in perpetuity."