335864 – net-misc/hylafax-6.0.3: hylafax generates empty facsimiles

Bug 335864 - net-misc/hylafax-6.0.3: hylafax generates empty facsimiles

Summary: net-misc/hylafax-6.0.3: hylafax generates empty facsimiles

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Server (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Steve Arnold

URL:	https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+so...
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Blocks:	361187
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Reported:	2010-09-03 20:17 UTC by Kai Krakow
Modified:	2012-02-26 17:49 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Kai Krakow 2010-09-03 20:17:47 UTC

This is a bug already discovered in Ubuntu (see URL). Ghostscript changed processing defaults so ps2fax and pdf2fax (etc) cannot generate a valid TIFF. The result is that the fax recipient only gets an empty page. The fix described there (MaxStripSize=0) resolves the issue.

Involved versions:
net-misc/hylafax-6.0.3
app-text/ghostscript-gpl-8.71-r1

I propose to use the MaxStripSize=0 approach in HylaFax to make it more robust to ghostscript upstream changes.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Giuseppe Sacco 2010-09-04 06:43:04 UTC

You may get Debian patches from http://patch-tracker.debian.org/package/hylafax/2:6.0.4-10 . It is the one called 808_ghostscript_args.patch and keep two corrections: the one you already proposed in this report, and adding '-P' that seems to be required with '-dSAFER=true'

Comment 2 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-02-26 17:49:34 UTC

Closing as WONTFIX because hylafax was removed from Portage. But adding 361187 to Blocks: -line since this bug should get fixed if introduced back to Portage.