[Bug 1913656] Re: Fix for Ghostscript 9.50 upstream bug needs to be back-ported

[Sebastien Bacher]

20.10 has 9.52 so that's fixed in the current serie and a request for
SRU to focal

Could you perhaps provide an user facing example of steps to trigger the
issue which could be used to justify and test the stable update? (you
mentioned ocrfeeder)

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Title:
  Fix for Ghostscript 9.50 upstream bug needs to be back-ported

Status in ghostscript package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Ghostscript 9.50 exhibits bug 701894 (fix the '--' and co options)
  which causes (eg) ocrfeeder to fail to load PDF files: an input file
  specified using the "... -- filename ..." command line syntax has no
  read permission in the GS interpreter.

  This commit fixes it:

  http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commit;h=24ec06a27df63297796a379c95ee5d4b39040410

  GS 9.52 includes the commit.

  Either apply the fix from the linked commit in the Focal-Updates
  version, or upgrade it to 9.52.

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