archis
March 24th, 2006, 10:46 AM
I thought this might be the right forum to ask the following:
Will a parallel install of the latest ghostscript break anything in Breezy (CUPS, foomatic) ?
Breezy uses 8.01 and Dapper will apparently use 8.15 -- meanwhile the AFPL-licensed version is now at 8.53 and the GPLed version at 8.50 (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/) (Dec 31 05). There's been a bunch of technical improvements - not just bugfixes - to Ghostscript since 8.01 and 8.15 such as support for PDF v1.4 and 1.5. DTP apps like Scribus are making use of these improvements (http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=toolbox7) and ask their users to upgrade.
AFAIK, ghostscript is a rather delicate part of the infrastructure and messing with it could break all sorts of things. So perhaps the backport team can tell me whether a parallel install -- perhaps using checkinstall -- in /usr/local or similar would actually break anything on Ubuntu Breezy ?
Will a parallel install of the latest ghostscript break anything in Breezy (CUPS, foomatic) ?
Breezy uses 8.01 and Dapper will apparently use 8.15 -- meanwhile the AFPL-licensed version is now at 8.53 and the GPLed version at 8.50 (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/) (Dec 31 05). There's been a bunch of technical improvements - not just bugfixes - to Ghostscript since 8.01 and 8.15 such as support for PDF v1.4 and 1.5. DTP apps like Scribus are making use of these improvements (http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=toolbox7) and ask their users to upgrade.
AFAIK, ghostscript is a rather delicate part of the infrastructure and messing with it could break all sorts of things. So perhaps the backport team can tell me whether a parallel install -- perhaps using checkinstall -- in /usr/local or similar would actually break anything on Ubuntu Breezy ?