564.Very, very briefly: ps2pdf not working on jessie 12 March 2014

Update: see second comment below post.

ps2pdf example.ps produces

Error: /typecheck in /findfont
Operand stack:
-66.7 --nostringval-- 0 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- {}
Execution stack:
%interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1910 1 3 %oparray_pop 1909 1 3 %oparray_pop 1893 1 3 %oparray_pop 1787 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- %errorexec_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- %array_continue --nostringval-- 1868 6 6 %oparray_pop
Dictionary stack:
--dict:1164/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:78/200(L)-- --dict:196/300(L)-- --dict:44/200(L)-- --dict:194/256(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Current file position is 393007
GPL Ghostscript 9.05: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
The workaround is to remove the package  fonts-font-awesome, which will remove texlive-fonts-extra. As far as I understand a fix is included upstreams and will work its way down to Jessie eventually.
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