[ubuntu/vivid-proposed] ghostscript 9.15~rc1~dfsg-1 (Accepted)

[Till Kamppeter]

ghostscript (9.15~rc1~dfsg-1) experimental; urgency=low

  [ upstream ]
  * New release 9.07.
    Highlights:
    + Licensing changed to GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL).
    + Ghostscript now has the option to be built as thread safe.
    + The pdfwrite devices now supports linearized (or optimized for
      fast web view) output directly.
    + Supports Postscript string and array objects with >64k entries.
    + Supports file sizes >4Gb - in particular reading and writing PDF
      files, and as side effect supports 64 bit Postscript integer
      objects.
    + All CMYK devices supports simulated overprint of spot colors.
    + Support for use of DeviceN ICC color profiles as the output
      profile with the tiffsep and psdcmyk devices.
    + Support for customized named color handling with DeviceN colors.
    + Support for black point compensation.
    + Support for K preservation in CMYK to CMYK conversions.
    + Support for DeviceLink profiles for graphic, image and text
      objects.
    + Support for custom color replacement.
    + Increased control in specifying color conversions as a function of
      object type.
    + Provide BigTIFF output option, when linked against recent libtiff.
    + LittleCMS updated to 2.4 [Debian instead links to shared lib].
      Closes: bug#531624. Thanks to Moritz Muehlenhoff and Bastien
      Roucaries.
  * New releases 9.09 and 9.10.
    Highlights:
    + New Background printing (BGPrint) feature to speedup processing of
      certain classes of files.
    + New GrayDetection feature to detect and convert nearly-grey color
      input to grayscale for some drivers.
    + Misc. improvements for Windows environments.
    + Updated URW Postscript font set, fixing compatibility problems
      with the Adobe fonts [Debian uses separately packaged fonts].
  * New release 9.14.
    Highlights:
    + pdfwrite now uses same color management as for rendering devices.
    + New device 'eps2write' to create EPS files using ps2write.
    + Support customisation of output for specific devices.
    + Reduced memory usage processing PDF with transparency to either
      display device or high level vector non-transparency devices like
      ps2write or pdfwrite when 'flattening' to PDF 1.3 or earlier.
    + New --saved-page option to spool and render in arbitrary order.
    + Improved performance by more extensive use of multiple threads.
    + New device 'pwgraster' to render for PWG Raster output.
    + CUPS device improved support for PPD-less printing.
  * New release 9.15.
    Highlights:
    + Support for PDF security handler revision 6.
    + New -dNoOutputFonts for pdfwrite and ps2write (and related).
    + New PostScript pageneutralcolor state to resolve color/grayscale.
    + pdfwrite device supports Link annotations.
    + pdfwrite device supports BMC/BDC/EMC pdfmarks.
    + New LCMS2-based color management also applies to PDF/A-1 output.

  [ Jonas Smedegaard ]
  * Update copyright info:
    + Extend coverage a few places to include recent years.
    + Change main license to "AGPL-3+~Artifex".
    + Update main fonts to author "(URW)++" and license
      "AGPL-3+~Artifex with font exception".
    + Extend coverage for packaging, and relicense as GPL-3+.
    + Drop Files section for documentation files not shipped since 9.05.
    + Fix include verbatim exceptions in license section (not comment).
  * Update repackaging:
    + Strip convenience library trio from upstream source.
    + Strip DFSG-nonfree ETS halftone code from upstream source.
    + Strip example code lacking license.
    + Strip contributed documentation possibly lacking license.
    + Strip from repackaged upstream tarball ramfs code lacking license
      according to <http://www.ghostscript.com/irclogs/2014/05/05.html>.
    + Stop strip jasper project: not shipped since 9.07.
    + Reflect files moved from base/ to devices/.
    + Stop documenting CUPS filters dropped since 9.09.
  * Drop patches 0* now included upstream.
  * Add patch 2009 to not link against stripped ramfs code.
  * Unfuzz all patches.
  * Update package relations:
    + Build-depend on recent libopenjpeg-dev (not libjasper-dev):
      Support for JasPer has been dropped upstream.
    + Tighten build-dependency on liblcms2-dev: We need threads support.
    + Build-depend on libtrio-dev.
  * Add d-shlibmove override for libtrio.
  * Add news entry about licensing change to AGPL.
    Thanks to Jonathan Nieder.
  * Update symbols file (208 new, 62 dropped).
  * Temporarily adjust source URLs for upstream pre-release.
  * Have license-check skip main HTML documentation.

Date: 2014-09-10 16:10:16.544739+00:00
Signed-By: Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter at gmail.com>
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ghostscript/9.15~rc1~dfsg-1
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