[tex-k] dvips bounding box

[Al Ma]

> What is the practical problem …?
@Tom Thank you for a reply.
The partical problem I ran into is this: While looking at a 15-year-old real-world Postscript file that specified a BoundingBox but had a wrong orientation (relative to the content) and an unclear paper size (relative to the country; I recall having deduced “letter”), I started wondering why and which size could be intended. I looked at what BoundingBox specified and found no standard paper size with 596 pt.
A bug report that, although with a subjectively low chance, might be related is http://bugs.debian.org/1036115 http://bugs.debian.org/1036115.
Beyond that, I am driven by curiosity.
A general rule of software development is: a combination of code and its specification (here: a comment) that don't match should be repaired (by repairing the code or the spec or both) or removed.
Finally, David suggested in
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/712490/why-does-running-latex-with-a4paper-or-210-mm-%c3%97-297-mm-followed-by-dvips-result#comment1770964_712493 https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/712490/why-does-running-latex-with-a4paper-or-210-mm-%c3%97-297-mm-followed-by-dvips-result#comment1770964_712493
that I submit a bug at tex-live, so I did.
@Karl Alright, posting to tex-k instead of tex-live.
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