Control: severity -1 normal

Hi Guilhem,

Quoting Guilhem Bonnefille (2021-04-25 20:52:16)
> Package: ghostscript
> Version: 9.27~dfsg-2+deb10u4
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Initialy, I found the bug by updating from Debian stretch to buster 
> (10.9): the printer was working on stretch but no more on buster. The 
> device was running on armel. I did tests on i686 and it works.
> 
> After investigation, I was able to identify the « smallest » error context. 
> The following command:
> 
> gs -dPDFDEBUG -dPARANOIDSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dNOINTERPOLATE -dNOMEDIAATTRS 
> -dShowAcroForm -sstdout=%stderr -sOutputFile=%stdout -sDEVICE=jpeg 
> -sMediaType=Automatic -sOutputType=0 -r600x600 -dMediaPosition=7 
> -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=841 -dcupsMediaType=-1 
> -dcupsBitsPerColor=8 -dcupsColorOrder=0 -dcupsColorSpace=17 -dcupsInteger0=26 
> -scupsPageSizeName=A4 -I/usr/share/cups/fonts -c '<</.HWMargins[9.000000 
> 9.000000 9.000000 9.000000] /Margins[0 0]>>setpagedevice' -f -_ < 
> /tmp/ades.cups-pdf >/dev/null
> 
> Produces error messages on armel but not on i686:
> 
> 8.33333 0 0 8.33333 0 0 cm
> BT
>    **** Error reading a content stream. The page may be incomplete.
>                Output may be incorrect.
>    **** Error: Form stream has unbalanced q/Q operators (too many q's)
>                Output may be incorrect.
> Q
> Q
>    **** Error: File did not complete the page properly and may be damaged.
>                Output may be incorrect.
> %Resolving: [1 0]
> 
> The input is obtained from hp-setup print test page (PS) converted to 
> cups-pdf with cupsfilter, which certainly means that gs is not able to 
> read a PDF it generates.

Thanks for the bugreport - the details provided is much appreciated!

A key piece is missing, however: Please provide a sample file which - 
like you describe - succeeds to be processed by Ghostscript on i686 and 
armel/stretch but fails on armel/buster.

Would also be helpful if you could check that same file can be 
succesfully parsed by other PostScript parsers - e.g. Evince, xpdf, and 
(if you have access to that) Adobe applications.


I am lowering severity: That field reflects the package as a whole not 
the specific issue reported, and I don't consider this issue so severe 
that Debian would be better off without Ghostscript if it cannot be 
solved.  Don't worry - it is common to mistake the scope of the severity 
field :-)


Kind regards,

 - Jonas

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