[MacPorts] #26586: latex2html @2008, Revision 2 (print) Install failure

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#26586: latex2html @2008, Revision 2 (print) Install failure
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 Reporter:  vances@…            |       Owner:  ryandesign@…           
     Type:  defect              |      Status:  assigned               
 Priority:  Normal              |   Milestone:                         
Component:  ports               |     Version:  1.9.1                  
 Keywords:                      |        Port:  latex2html             
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Changes (by ryandesign@…):

  * owner:  macports-tickets@… => ryandesign@…
  * status:  new => assigned


Comment:

 I believe the source of the problem is that the ghostscript port currently
 is at version 9.00rc2, a release candidate, and so "gs -h" prints this as
 its first line:

 {{{
 GPL Ghostscript RELEASE CANDIDATE 9.00 (2010-09-01)
 }}}

 Looking in latex2html's config/config.pl script, it is expecting the
 string to match this regular expression:

 {{{
 /Ghostscript\s*(?:Version|(?:PRE-|BETA |TESTER )RELEASE|)\s*(\d+[.]?\d*)/i
 }}}

 It's not expecting the words "release candidate" to appear there.

 Indeed, I was not expecting our ghostscript port to be at a release
 candidate version; we use only stable versions unless there's a good
 reason not to. I have requested ghostscript be updated to 9.00 final in
 #26588 which should resolve this. I will also look into fixing latex2html
 to be able to detect release candidate versions of ghostscript.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/26586#comment:3>
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