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[Robie Basak <1348384@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've just spoken with Till about this on IRC.

It seems to me that there are two patches involved here. Patch 1 (fix-
document-rotation) fixed bug 1242678, but caused a regression (tracked
by this bug: bug 1348384). Marek has kindly provided patch 2 (erase-
page) that fixes this.

But patch 1 was reverted upstream, and we don't know what the current
status of this is. So patch 1 has inadvertently caused Ubuntu to diverge
from upstream, and this is what is causing the current pain.

I think that taking patch 2 is going to exacerbate the problem. Then
we'll be even further diverged from upstream, and this will make future
merges harder, which sets Ubuntu up to end up with an old version for
fear of regression.

So to avoid making the situation worse, can someone please resolve the
situation of these two bugs upstream before pushing this patch into
Ubuntu? What has upstream done about bug 1242678? Would it be better to
revert patch 1 from Ubuntu, and take what upstream has done to fix it
instead, thus avoiding this regression altogether and bring us closer to
upstream?

Finally, when preparing debdiffs, please use dep3 headers
(http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/) to make it easier to follow upstream
status on these patches.

Thanks.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1348384

Title:
  evince and okular do not render eps files correctly resulting in a
  black background

Status in evince package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in libspectre package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in okular package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Several eps files, which previously rendered correctly, are not
  rendered correctly by evince and okular.  It looks as though something
  is wrong with the "transparency" setting, since most of the
  incorrectly-rendered files have a black background, but the figure can
  somewhat be made out on top of hte black background.  The PDF files I
  have tested are NOT affected.  EPS files that were previously viewable
  correctly ARE affected.

  Thank you for your time.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: evince 3.10.3-0ubuntu10.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-32.57-generic 3.13.11.4
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-32-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Thu Jul 24 16:54:06 2014
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: evince
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-06-03 (51 days ago)

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