#855219 ghostscript: Please add gspcl

Package:
ghostscript
Source:
ghostscript
Description:
interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF
Submitter:
Patrik Schindler
Date:
2019-11-28 01:00:08 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#855219#5
Date:
2017-02-15 15:40:47 UTC
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The GhostScript project also offers gspcl, which does the same with PCL-Data as
GhostScript does with PostScript. There's no package for Debian and
implementing this seems to be not so trivial, because gspcl generates the same
scripts as ghostscript itself (ps2pdf and the like).

Please add gspcl to Debian. :-) Thanks!
#855219#10
Date:
2017-02-23 13:42:57 UTC
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Hi Patrik,

Quoting Patrik Schindler (2017-02-15 16:40:47)

I have not yet inspected closely, but it might be that those are the
_same_ scripts: at the source level, gspcl is a superset of gs.

Upstream has warned me that gspcl us unlikely to be possible to provide
with Debian due to a core requirement of fonts not freely available.
Might still be possible to build gs and gspcl together, ship gs in main
and the gspcl-specific parts in contrib - with a separate source package
for non-free fonts (if those are legal to distribute there at all).

Just curious: What are your concrete needs for gspcl?


 - Jonas
#855219#15
Date:
2017-02-23 16:49:29 UTC
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[re-adding bugreport and setting same as reply-to]

Quoting Schindler, Patrik (2017-02-23 16:43:01)

Licensing issue is different - quoting from ghostpdl/pcl/LICENSE:

Seems (but need closer inspection) that the fonts are free except for
commercial use and therefore permitted in Debian non-free.

Sounds like a fun project :-)

 - Jonas
#855219#20
Date:
2017-02-23 17:24:02 UTC
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Hello Jonas,

Am 23.02.2017 um 17:49 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk>:

I did that intentionally but I’m also okay with having some smirky remarks publicly accessible.

So I may look forward for a gpcl package for unstable in a not all to far future?

Yes, indeed!

:wq! PoC
#855219#25
Date:
2017-02-23 18:51:01 UTC
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Quoting Patrik Schindler (2017-02-23 18:24:02)

Sorry for not asking bfore publishing your post!

Yes.

...and if at some point in time you realize that "not all too far" have
different meaning for me than for you, then feel free to ping this
bugreport - or roll up your sleeves and join the packaging effort!

 - Jonas
#855219#30
Date:
2017-02-23 18:58:22 UTC
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Hello Jonas,

Am 23.02.2017 um 19:51 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk>:

Thank you very much!

Since it will for sure not make it to testing, I don’t expect anything before unstable becomes the new testing. Of course there is a short cut called backports… ;-)

I’m still not seasoned enough in packaging such a complex beast like gs or gpcl. in fact, I’m glad if I can do proper packaging for my planned PDF-Tool.

:wq! PoC