What's the deal with Ghostscript?

eyolf · 2006-02-19 15:09:46

I noticed that the gsfonts package in testing is older than the one in curent, and also that the current ghostscript package is significantly older than the testing one:

Current     system     ghostscript     7.07.1-5     
Current     x11     gsfonts     8.11-2     

Testing     system     ghostscript     8.15.1-2     
Testing     x11     gsfonts     8.11-1

What's the deal here?
I noticed this partly because pacman notified me that my currently installed gsfonts package (from Current) appears to be newer than the testing one I was about to install, and partly because printing doesn't work anymore: when I try, nothing happens, and gs runs amok. Is this because of the different versions, or is there some other problem?

JGC · 2006-02-20 08:15:21

The gsfonts package from testing contains dependencies for Xorg tools that belonged to testing. When I needed gsfonts for imagemagick, I moved gsfonts to current with updated xorg dependencies for Xorg 6.8.2. A -3 version will come into current soon, to match the splitup of xorg-clients. The version in testing will get removed then.

eyolf · 2006-02-20 10:52:11

Thanks for the explanation. I reverted to the version(s) in current, and everything works fine.

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#1 2006-02-19 15:09:46

What's the deal with Ghostscript?

#2 2006-02-20 08:15:21

Re: What's the deal with Ghostscript?

#3 2006-02-20 10:52:11

Re: What's the deal with Ghostscript?

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