Bug 2127509 - Asymptote 2.81 incompatible with Ghostscript 9.56 - 2.82 required
Summary: Asymptote 2.81 incompatible with Ghostscript 9.56 - 2.82 required
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: asymptote
Version: 36
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tom "spot" Callaway
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2022-09-16 15:52 UTC by Ian
Modified: 2022-10-01 01:13 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: asymptote-2.83-1.fc37 asymptote-2.83-1.fc36
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Last Closed: 2022-09-27 00:15:19 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Ian 2022-09-16 15:52:03 UTC 
Description of problem:

Most of the Fedoras just updated Ghostscript from 9.55 to 9.56 - this is incompatible with the current version of Asymptote 2.81, at least 2.82 is required to work with 9.56. See confirmation of this by author(s): https://sourceforge.net/p/asymptote/discussion/409349/thread/25a19504b9/?limit=25#27ab. Please could you consider upgrading asymptote to 2.82, thanks!

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

asymptote 2.81 and ghostscript 9.56.1

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:

Run this BASH: asy <(echo 'label("Hello");') -tex xelatex -f svg

Actual results:

A blank SVG.

Expected results:

"Hello" written in text.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2022-09-22 03:29:58 UTC 
FEDORA-2022-74d7856371 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 37. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-74d7856371
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2022-09-22 03:30:00 UTC 
FEDORA-2022-ffe0231373 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 36. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-ffe0231373
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2022-09-23 01:48:39 UTC 
FEDORA-2022-74d7856371 has been pushed to the Fedora 37 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2022-74d7856371`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-74d7856371

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2022-09-23 01:57:23 UTC 
FEDORA-2022-ffe0231373 has been pushed to the Fedora 36 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2022-ffe0231373`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-ffe0231373

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2022-09-27 00:15:19 UTC 
FEDORA-2022-74d7856371 has been pushed to the Fedora 37 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2022-10-01 01:13:14 UTC 
FEDORA-2022-ffe0231373 has been pushed to the Fedora 36 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
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