Processed: Re: Bug#995392: ghostscript: ps2pdf trashes some characters

2021-10-14 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug #995392 [ghostscript] ghostscript: ps2pdf trashes some characters
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Bug#995392: ghostscript: ps2pdf trashes some characters

2021-10-14 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Control: severity -1 normal

Quoting Vincent Lefevre (2021-09-30 16:53:01)
> Package: ghostscript
> Version: 9.54.0~dfsg-5
> Severity: grave
> Justification: causes non-serious data loss
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> The ps2pdf trashes some characters, making text non-searchable and
> partly unreadable via pdftotext (even though the glyph appears to
> be OK). There was no such issue in the recent past.

I agree with Ken Sharp¹ that this issue is not grave for the ghostscript 
package as a whole - regardless of how important that feature of 
ghostscript is for your usecase.

 - Jonas

¹ https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=704478#c8

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