Bug#895541: doc-rfc autopkgtest broken, fixed by using Ghostscript's ps2txt instead of unmaintained pstotext

[Iain Lane]

Control: severity -1 normal

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 01:23:01PM +0200, Till Kamppeter wrote:
> Package: doc-rfc
> Version: 20170121-1
> Severity: grave

[ In Debian autopkgtest failures aren't RC bugs; downgrading ]

> pstotext stopped working with the recent update to Ghostscript 9.22. This is
> not only due to the deprecation of "-dDELAYBIND" in Ghostscript (which was
> withdrawn in 9.23) but also by an additional problem in Ghostscript.

I just wanted to say that I filed #895513 about pstotext being broken in
Debian. I agree with Till that moving to ghostscript's own
implementation is a sensible idea for you to do here.

Cheers,

-- 
Iain Lane  [ i...@orangesquash.org.uk ]
Debian Developer   [ la...@debian.org ]
Ubuntu Developer   [ la...@ubuntu.com ]


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Bug#895541: doc-rfc autopkgtest broken, fixed by using Ghostscript's ps2txt instead of unmaintained pstotext

[Till Kamppeter]

Package: doc-rfc
Version: 20170121-1
Severity: grave

Hi,

the autopkgtest of doc-rfc passes all PostScript files coming with the 
package through pstotext to check their integrity for use by dhelp which 
also uses pstotext.


pstotext stopped working with the recent update to Ghostscript 9.22. 
This is not only due to the deprecation of "-dDELAYBIND" in Ghostscript 
(which was withdrawn in 9.23) but also by an additional problem in 
Ghostscript.


As pstotext did not get maintained upstream for years it is better to 
drop it and replace it by the ps2txt utility of Ghostscript. ps2txt's 
compatibility with the Ghostscript it comes with is assured as they are 
maintained together.


pstotext is only used by dhelp, so to eliminate it from the distro it is 
enough to update the appropriate command lines in dhelp and in the 
doc-rfc package.


Attached is my change on the Ubuntu package of doc-rfc as a debdiff.

   Till
diff -Nru doc-rfc-20170121/debian/changelog doc-rfc-20170121/debian/changelog
--- doc-rfc-20170121/debian/changelog   2017-01-24 23:35:26.0 +0100
+++ doc-rfc-20170121/debian/changelog   2018-04-12 12:08:58.0 +0200
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+doc-rfc (20170121-1ubuntu1) bionic; urgency=medium
+
+  * In the autopkgtest replaced the call of pstotext by ps2txt
+as pstotext upstream is unmaintained for years and stopped
+working with Ghostscript whereas ps2txt is part of ghostscript
+(LP: #1762778).
+
+ -- Till Kamppeter   Thu, 12 Apr 2018 12:08:58 +0200
+
 doc-rfc (20170121-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * New upstream version
diff -Nru doc-rfc-20170121/debian/tests/control 
doc-rfc-20170121/debian/tests/control
--- doc-rfc-20170121/debian/tests/control   2017-01-24 23:35:26.0 
+0100
+++ doc-rfc-20170121/debian/tests/control   2018-04-12 11:59:46.0 
+0200
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 Tests: simple pspdf-parsing
-Depends: @, pstotext, poppler-utils, dhelp, lynx, libcgi-pm-perl
+Depends: @, ghostscript, poppler-utils, dhelp, lynx, libcgi-pm-perl
diff -Nru doc-rfc-20170121/debian/tests/pspdf-parsing 
doc-rfc-20170121/debian/tests/pspdf-parsing
--- doc-rfc-20170121/debian/tests/pspdf-parsing 2017-01-24 23:35:26.0 
+0100
+++ doc-rfc-20170121/debian/tests/pspdf-parsing 2018-04-12 12:08:58.0 
+0200
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-echo "Tests that all files are parseable by p*totext,"
+echo "Tests that all files are parseable by p*t*xt,"
 echo "in order to suport dhelp integration."
 
 set -e
@@ -10,12 +10,12 @@
 
 for i in *.ps; do
   echo " - testing $i"
-  pstotext $i > /dev/null
+  ps2txt $i > /dev/null
 done
 
 for i in *.ps.gz; do
   echo " - testing $i"
-  zcat $i | pstotext > /dev/null
+  zcat $i | ps2txt > /dev/null
 done
 
 for i in *.pdf; do