latest Stretch update breaks Scribus!

[Gary Dale]

This is one of the those WTF moments. Despite the fact that Ghostscript 
9.25 has been known to break Scribus since at least the start of the 
month, the Stable version of Ghostscript has just been changed from 9.22 
to 9.25.

This was apparently done to patch a security hole - possibly 
https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2018-10194/ found in 2018-04-18. 
However it seems to me that the cure is worse than the disease since it 
now renders an important (for me, anyway) application useless. Instead I 
need to keep the old version of Ghostscript on my laptop in order to be 
able to import EPS & PDF files and export the document to PDF.

I recognize that there is no perfect solution to this problem but 
breaking an existing program should not be allowed within the Stable 
branch.

I'm glad that I luckily created a virtual machine running Stretch just 
as the upgrade to Ghostscript was added to Stable so that I can stop it 
from affecting my laptop. At least I still have a machine that can 
handle Scribus documents containing PDFs. However I believe the 
maintainers should roll back the update until they have a version that 
works with Scribus.