Bug#873816: texlive-base: Fonts handling broken in dvips?

[Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@alphanet.ch>]

Package: texlive-base
Version: 2016.20170123-5
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

The following LaTeX file:

   \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
   \font\testing=cmssbx17 scaled 2500
   \font\testingb=cmssbx17 scaled 1500
   \font\testingt=cmss17 scaled 800
   \begin{document}
   \testing{first{\testingb{second}}third}\\
   \testingt{fourth}
   \end{document}

was working correctly with Debian wheezy LTS, for DVI, PS (via dvips)
and PDF (via pdflatex):

   latex demo.tex && dvips demo.dvi -o demo.ps && pdflatex demo.tex
   xdvi demo.dvi; gv demo.ps; gv demo.pdf

With jessie and stretch, the problem is a corrupted PS file which does
not contain the word "first" completely, and in addition with a
wrong font (looking like courier).

Maybe the psfonts.map file is wrong?

Thank you to look into this.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_CH.U
TF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages texlive-base depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.61
ii  libpaper-utils         1.1.24+nmu5
ii  tex-common             6.06
ii  texlive-binaries       2016.20160513.41080.dfsg-2
ii  ucf                    3.0036
ii  xdg-utils              1.1.1-1

Versions of packages texlive-base recommends:
ii  lmodern  2.004.5-3

Versions of packages texlive-base suggests:
ii  atril [postscript-viewer]        1.16.1-2+deb9u1
ii  ghostscript [postscript-viewer]  9.20~dfsg-3.2
ii  gv [postscript-viewer]           1:3.7.4-1+b1
pn  perl-tk                          <none>
pn  xpdf-reader | pdf-viewer         <none>

Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii  dpkg  1.18.24
ii  ucf   3.0036

Versions of packages tex-common suggests:
ii  debhelper  10.2.5

Versions of packages texlive-base is related to:
ii  tex-common        6.06
ii  texlive-binaries  2016.20160513.41080.dfsg-2

-- debconf information:
  texlive-base/texconfig_ignorant:
  tex-common/check_texmf_wrong:
  tex-common/check_texmf_missing:
  texlive-base/binary_chooser: pdftex, dvips, dvipdfmx, xdvi