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Ghostscript 6.51 release (was Re: Package maintainer release procedures)
>>>>> "Chuck" == Charles S Wilson <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu> writes in
response to Chris Faylor:
Chuck> I've already uploaded them to sourceware -- they're in
Chuck> ~cwilson. I checked them out -- they look okay to me. I
Chuck> converted them from .gz to .bz2 to save ~1.2M on download,
Chuck> and I also noticed that the gs.exe binary was not stripped.
Chuck> However, when I unpacked and stripped the gs.exe, it didn't
Chuck> really shrink the binary size enough to justify "re-owning"
Chuck> all the files in the tarballs as "cwilson" vs. "alcocer".
Chuck> So, I didn't adjust that.
Yes, I noticed that the stripping didn't remove much symbolic info.
Evidently, some of the object files got compiled with -g (just
guessing, I guess I can look into it.)
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Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc.
alcocer@helixdigital.com -- http://www.helixdigital.com