Comment 1 for bug 1168545

Also couple of things I tried before and failed:
1) Since I had texlive-full installed I suspected it was a culprit. Removed it, and gs version was still 8.71. So I add some (not all) packages later.
2) Tried to edit gs_init.ps file to match 871 to please ghostscript, it wouldn't work anyways with some other errors being thrown at me.

Not sure where does ghostscript binary takes its version (I didn't find anything in /etc/ghostscript as well as in my ~ dir) , there must have been a file that got overwritten only when upgrading to 9.05~dfsg-6.3, and apparently would not when going 9.05~dfsg-6_amd64-->9.05~dfsg-6.2_amd64