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Brew ghostscript (and ImageMagick?) formula update #4788
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Homebrew/homebrew-core#142236 is trying, please help there.
We can if the ghostscript developers consider those to be long term support versions and will update them whenever needed: https://docs.brew.sh/Versions
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Greetings,
I do not know - at all - if this is the good place for this as I am a complete newbie regarding brew development, after having being using it for years. I wanted to report an outdated formula for GhostScript and I did not find a place to do so... Indeed, the "Request a change to a formula" available on homebrew-core's issue creation page only brings to Homebrew's documentation about creating a pull request and not to a proper ticket creation... and I do not feel confident nor skilled enough to try and mess up my brew installation while trying this procedure.
Anyway, I wanted to report that there is currently only one formula for Ghostcript:
which corresponds to the 10.01.2 version. However, this version exhibits a bug which impacts ImageMagick (and probably other softwares), as reported here. As you may read following this latter link, version 9.26 and 9.53 are not affected by this issue, nor is the latest version (10.02.0).
Consequently, it would be nice if the GhostScript formula were updated. Additionally, it would also be nice if tags were created accordingly, such as
[email protected]or[email protected], for instance. Indeed, this will allow user to be able to go back to a previous version if such situation arises again in the future.Also, would this fix the ImageMagick formula as well or would it require a dedicated fix? What I mean is that, from what I understand, ImageMagick - if installed with brew - will use it's own GhostScript version, and not the system one (I verified that it does using ImageMagick's
verboseoption). What I do not know is whether the GhostScript's version used is specified in ImageMagick's formula (i.e. does ImageMagick's formula points specifically towards GhostScript 10.01.2), or whether ImageMagick just takes the homebrew'sghostscriptformula as a dependence without specifying a given version number (i.e. it lets homebrewghostscriptformula handle any versionning and just assumes that GhostScript is needed).Beta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.
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