Re: Subject: GPL Ghostscript 8.01 [Re: Packages with newer upstream versions]

[PLinnell]

>  
>  Message: 9
>  Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 20:16:33 -0700
>  From: Per Bjornsson <perbj(a)stanford.edu&gt;
>  Subject: GPL Ghostscript 8.01 [Re: Packages with newer upstream
>  	versions]
>  To: jpo(a)di.uminho.pt, Development discussions related to Fedora Core
>  	<fedora-devel-list(a)redhat.com&gt;
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>  
>  On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 09:51, Jos Pedro Oliveira wrote:
>  > package(s)     upsteam        rawhide
>  > =======================================
>  ghostscript      8.01           7.0.7
>  
>  GPL Ghostscript 8.01 (from the main Ghostscript maintainers, they
>  dropped the official GNU affiliation after 7.0.7 essentially because of
>  disagreements with the FSF so it's no longer called GNU Ghostscript) was
>  announced without much fanfare in February (strangely there is no
>  release announcement on the ghostscript.com web page but there was an
>  announcement on the mailing list [1].) I haven't tried it yet and can't
>  vouch for how useful an upgrade this is but it can be found here:
>  
>
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1897&package_id...
>  ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/GPL/gs801/ghostscript-8.01.tar...
>  
>  (Note that it's now in the GPL directory as opposed to the gnu directory
>  of the Ghostscript FTP site.) Is the Fedora version so heavily patched
>  that an upgrade would be difficult? (The Fedora package has certainly
>  gone through quite a few iterations and seems to have a bunch of
>  patches.)
>  
>  Cheers,
>  Per
>  
>  [1] http://www.ghostscript.com/pipermail/gs-devel/2004-February/002909.html
>  
>  -- 
>  Per Bjornsson <perbj(a)stanford.edu&gt;
>  Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University 
I have filed:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=126326

This is a bear of a package to build and include all the extra printers
it supports. Updating this is not a trivial job, even with the new auto*
stuff used to build GS.

GPL GS 8.02 is expected to have CUPS integration of some sorts, but I
would not expect it soon.

T. Waugh might not talk to me in IRC anymore ;)

Cheers,
Peter