Bug#874901: [GLE-devel] Probable fix for qgle seg faults with latest ghostscript versions

[Christian T. Steigies]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 10:55:28PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 22:14:04 +0200 Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 04:32:08PM +0100, Laurence Abbott via Glx-devel wrote:
> > > I _think_ I have the fix for seg faults that occur when QGLE is used with
> > > ghostscript 9.27 (the latest release).
> > 
> > I applied Laurence's patches and applied them to the Debian package, plus
> > some Debian related changes. It looks as if we have QGLE ported to Qt5!
> 
> Hey, I am glad to hear this!   :-)
> I am adding the Qt4-removal bug address to the list of recipient, since
> this is good news for Qt4-removal issue.
> 
> > 
> > I need to do some before this can go into Debian, but here are amd64 and
> > source packages for you to test:
> > 
> > https://people.debian.org/~cts/deb/
> > 
> > Please don't upload them, but test and send feedback back to the list.
> 
> Any specific reason to use a version number (4.2.5-7~exp1) which is
> actually considered lower than the one currently in Debian unstable
> (4.2.5-7+b1)?

Oh, I forgot about the binNMU. This is not the version that will be uploaded
to Debian, that will be -8. I just wanted to give you something to test,
before I upload, and it should have had a version between 7 and 8. Well, I
guess you can still test it, since you need to install the deb manually
anyway.

Christian