[csw-maintainers] Update of Ghostscript

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Peter,

Am 29.05.2013 um 16:55 schrieb Peter FELECAN <pfelecan at opencsw.org>:
> Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> writes:
>> I have updated ghostscript to the latest 9.07. However, this goes with bumping libgs from
>> libgs.so.8 to libgs.so.9 which are used by a couple of packages that would need rebuilding.
>> I am not sure about how libgs.so interacts with other files like printer drivers between
>> 8 and 9, probably someone can help me out on this? The updated packages are available at
>>  http://buildfarm.opencsw.org/experimental.html#ghostscript
>> for testing. Additionally, the final packages would need to include CSWlibgs8 for libgs.so.8
>> being required by a couple of packages including texlive which will probably not be rebuilt
>> because of some minor dependency change :-)
> 
> The maintainer of TeXLive greatly appreciate this! Sometime, in the
> future, I'll rebuild it and use the new library…

I have made updated packages with legacy dependencies of CSWgs to CSWlibgs8 which
should allow continuing use of existing software:
  http://buildfarm.opencsw.org/experimental.html#ghostscript

Peter, would you be so kind verifying texlive against it as it is the most complex package?


Best regards

  -- Dago


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