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FS#54992 - [texlive-pstricks] Add ghostscript dependency

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Henrik Juul Pedersen (henrikjuul) - Monday, 31 July 2017, 14:42 GMT
Last edited by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Monday, 31 July 2017, 14:49 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
pstricks uses ps2pdf (provided by ghostscript) as backend, and produces empty intermediate output files without further error when it's missing.
I found the error quite difficult to diagnose.

I don't know if more of the texlive packages might have the same dependency issue, none of the ones in the "texlive-most" group depends on ghostscript.

Additional info:
* package version(s): texlive-pstricks-2017.44511-1


Steps to reproduce:
Use pstricks with latex or xelatex without ghostscript installed.
I used psbarcode in a pspicture.

Output errors will be (for xelatex) similar to:
xdvipdfmx:fatal: File ended prematurely

Although the error was in xelatex while running pstricks, and not in xdvipdfmx

I've attached a test latex file, and output logs.
   test.tex (1 KiB)
   xelatex.log (7.6 KiB)
   xelatex.nopdf.log (7.6 KiB)
   xdvipdfmx.log (0.8 KiB)
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Closed by  Eli Schwartz (eschwartz)
Monday, 31 July 2017, 14:49 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  Look at the optdepends of texlive-core

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