Bug#935720: Bug#874901: [GLE-devel] Probable fix for qgle seg faults with latest ghostscript versions

[Francesco Poli]

On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 00:19:08 +0200 Christian T. Steigies wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 10:55:28PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote:
[...]
> > 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.

Well, actually, even without the binNMU, the chosen version number
would be considered as a downgrade (because of the tilde):

  $ if dpkg --compare-versions 4.2.5-7 lt 4.2.5-7~exp1 ; then echo yes ; else echo no ; fi
  no

> This is not the version that will be uploaded
> to Debian, that will be -8.

Sure!

> 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.

I grabbed
https://people.debian.org/~cts/deb/gle-graphics_4.2.5-7~exp1.dsc
https://people.debian.org/~cts/deb/gle-graphics_4.2.5-7~exp1.debian.tar.xz
and, after taking a look at the differences with respect to the package
currently in Debian unstable, I fixed the version string and rebuilt
the binary package.

I tested the resulting package: it seems to fix the [dependency on obsolete Qt4] bug, the [libgs search] bug, and also the [GUI segfault] bug!

[dependency on obsolete Qt4]: <https://bugs.debian.org/874901>
[libgs search]: <https://bugs.debian.org/935720>
[GUI segfault]: <https://bugs.debian.org/935913>

Please prepare a new Debian revision (4.2.5-8) with these patches and
with appropriate Closes directives in the changelog, and upload it to
unstable!

Of course, I would also like to recommend the upstream developers to
incorporate the (non Debian-specific) patches into the next official
version of GLE.

Thanks for taking care of the package.
Bye!


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