xfig packaging dependency

xfig packaging dependency

[Lloyd Wood via cygwin]

shouldn't the netpbm package be a necessary dependency for
the xfig package, to prevent 'bad gif format' messages
and much headscratching?

$ Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
/bin/sh: giftopnm: command not found
/bin/sh: ppmtopcx: command not found


wasn't much of a clue to go on...

thanks


 
Lloyd Wood
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Re: xfig packaging dependency

[Achim Gratz]

Lloyd Wood via cygwin writes:
> shouldn't the netpbm package be a necessary dependency for
> the xfig package, to prevent 'bad gif format' messages
> and much headscratching?
>
> $ Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
> /bin/sh: giftopnm: command not found
> /bin/sh: ppmtopcx: command not found
>
>
> wasn't much of a clue to go on...

Well, that apparently was enough of a clue to hunt down the correct
package.  Now, what were you actually doing to trigger this?  I don't
mind ading a manual dependency to the package, but if these calls
execute from a script I think the dependency check from cygport is
supposed to pick them up (there are both false positives and negatives,
so I know it isn't foolproof).


Regards,
Achim.
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