[Bug 1348384] Re: evince and okular do not render eps files correctly resulting in a black background

[Till Kamppeter]

The SRU was the simple application of an upstream patch from this
upstream bug report

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76450

I do not know anything of the internals of libspectre and even do not
have upload rights for it, as it does not belong to printing. It is used
by evince to generate certain output data formats. I only have done the
debdiff for that SRU because no one else did it. I am not maintaining
libspectre in Ubuntu.

So my suggestion is to simply remove the patch if the solution of the
current problem is urgent and no better patch from upstream is
available. But take into account that the problem of the original SRU
will reappear. Let this be a new SRU. Wait for a better upstream fix if
it is not so urgent.

In general make upstream aware of both problems and that fix of the
first problem caused the second and what is needed is a fix to solve
both problems. Do another SRU if the final fix is available.


** Changed in: libspectre (Ubuntu Trusty)
     Assignee: Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) => (unassigned)

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Title:
  evince and okular do not render eps files correctly resulting in a
  black background

Status in libspectre package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in libspectre source package in Trusty:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Several eps files, which previously rendered correctly, are not
  rendered correctly by evince and okular.  It looks as though something
  is wrong with the "transparency" setting, since most of the
  incorrectly-rendered files have a black background, but the figure can
  somewhat be made out on top of hte black background.  The PDF files I
  have tested are NOT affected.  EPS files that were previously viewable
  correctly ARE affected.

  Thank you for your time.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: evince 3.10.3-0ubuntu10.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-32.57-generic 3.13.11.4
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-32-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Thu Jul 24 16:54:06 2014
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: evince
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-06-03 (51 days ago)

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