Re: Switching to Artifex Ghostscript

[Leo Famulari]

On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 10:42:45PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:
> > Marius Bakke <address@hidden> writes:
> >> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
> >>> Both programs are distributed under the AGPL, as far as I can tell. But
> >>> Artifex Ghostscript is actively developed, which I think is very
> >>> important for C software that is designed to handle untrusted input.
> >>
> >> Thanks for bringing this up. GNU Ghostscript seemed to go
> >> mostly-inactive[0] after Artifex changed to AGPL in 2013[1]. The latest
> >> "upstream" release is 9.21[2], we have 9.14.0 (from 2014!).
> >>
> >> I'm in favor of switching to the active fork.
> >
> > Me too.  In fact, I once tried to package Artifex Ghostscript, but
> > failed in the attempt to unbundle libraries.
> 
> Ditto.  In the discussion you mentioned above, Didier Link of
> GNU Ghostscript did not really address our concerns.

Here are patches that allow you build groff, cairo, and cups with the
Artifex Ghostscript.

I didn't take the step of replacing the GNU Ghostscript yet.

0001-gnu-Add-Artifex-Ghostscript.patch
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0002-gnu-ijs-Use-modify-phases-syntax.patch
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0003-gnu-ijs-Update-to-9.21.0-and-switch-to-Artifex-Ghost.patch
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