https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=724383 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=724383#c2 --- Comment #2 from Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@suse.com> 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 --------------------------------------------------------- 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. --------------------------------------------------------- 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: --------------------------------------------------------------- * 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 ;-) --------------------------------------------------------------- If you like you could help me to do the same also for Ghostscript for openSUSE after 12.1. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.