[needs-packaging] GSview

[SHIRAMINE Ken-ichi]

I hope packaging GSview. GSview is a graphical interface for Ghostscript. I tried gv and evince. But GSview has advantages over gv and evince. Automatic calculation of bounding box is especially useful. I believe packaging GSview should contribute to popularize Ubuntu. Modification and redistribution of GSview is granted. A source for Linux is already provided. Please consider packaging.

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/index.htm

[Craig Silk (csilk)]

Thank you for taking the time to request this package and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately you have not provided enough information for a developer to start packaging this application. Please make sure this bug meets the guidelines at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NewPackages. An example of a complete package request is vailable at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NewPackages.

[SHIRAMINE Ken-ichi (shira)]

I would like to add supplemental information.

URL: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/

License: Aladdin Free Public License
The license is here: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/LICENCE

Note: GSview 4.9 is the latest version. It needs Ghostscript 7.04 or later.
The source archive is available: http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/ghostgum/gsview-4.9.tar.gz

To Craig Silk: Thank you very much for your comment.

[Mauricio (mruibal)]

I also support the idea of adding gsview to ubuntu packages. In fact I have gsview installed in Hardy and it works ok. If someone has any trouble installing gsview I can help you.
Greetings.

[davygrvy (davygrvy)]

I could use this package as well. I'm 2 minutes from building it from source because no package is available.

[SHIRAMINE Ken-ichi (shira)]

Today I could succeeded in installing GSview 4.8 using a RPM package. But still I hope packaging GSview for ubuntu.

To Mauricio and davygrvy: Thank you very much for your comment and sorry for late response.