Need to update GhostScript package in the Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) Repository

[Till Kamppeter]

Hi,

I have discussed this problem with the upstream developers of 
Ghostscript at Artifex and the problem is NOT fixed by the official 8.61 
release of Ghostscript. It appeared as fixed as the problem occurs only 
with Ghostscript built as dynamic library (the case for Gutsy) and not 
for a static build (the case for a standard "./configure; make; sudo 
make install" as users did with the official Ghostscript (which is not 
available as Gutsy package).

The Artifex developers are working on a solution and I hope that I can 
soon post it as a Stable Release Update for Gutsy.

See

http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689577
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/gs-gpl/+bug/172264

    Till


Gaurav Jain wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  
> 
> This is regarding the problem some users of Ubuntu 7.10 have faced with 
> printing of secure PDF files using Adobe Reader 8.1.1.  Here are some 
> links for reference on this issue:
> 
>  
> 
> http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?128@@.3c0564a2
> 
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3846261 (I have posted an entry 
> here with id gaurav_anywhere)
> 
>  
> 
> The reason for this issue is that Ubuntu 7.10 currently installs 
> GhostScript version “8.61 pre-release” from the repositories, and 
> there’s a bug in that pre-release version of GhostScript.  We have 
> tested and found that the problem does not occur with the release 
> version of GhostScript version 8.61 available at 
> http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/GPL/gpl861.htm.
> 
>  
> 
> What we would therefore request is to update the Ubuntu 7.10 
> repositories to include this release version instead of the pre-release 
> version.
> 
>  
> 
> I don’t know if this is the correct forum for this topic.  Please let me 
> know if I need to contact someone else who looks at the package 
> uploading for Ubuntu.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gaurav Jain
> 
> Adobe Systems
>