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#216856
grace: libtiff dependency is unnecessary
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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Torsten Werner <twerner@debian.org>:
Bug#216856; Package grace.
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Acknowledgement sent to Evgeny Stambulchik <fnevgeny@plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Torsten Werner <twerner@debian.org>.
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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):
Package: grace
Version: 5.1.13-1
Severity: minor
There is no need to depend on libtiff for Debian builds of Grace. The
TIFF library is only needed for the PDF driver which is disabled (since
PDFLib is not entirely free).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux plasma-gate 2.4.22 #6 Mon Sep 22 10:28:27 IDT 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages grace depends on:
ii defoma 0.11.5 Debian Font Manager -- automatic f
ii fftw2 [fftw2-double] 2.1.3-16 Library for computing Fast Fourier
ii gsfonts 6.0-2.1 Fonts for the ghostscript interpre
ii lesstif2 1:0.93.91-2 OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation relea
ii libc6 2.3.2-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libpng12-0 1.2.5.0-4 PNG library - runtime
ii libtiff3g 3.5.7-2 Tag Image File Format library
ii netcdfg3 3.5.0-7.1 An interface for scientific data a
ii t1lib1 1.3.1-3 Type 1 font rasterizer library - r
ii xlibs 4.2.1-12.1 X Window System client libraries
ii xmhtml1 1.1.7-13 A Motif widget for display HTML 3.
ii zlib1g 1:1.1.4-15 compression library - runtime
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Message #10 received at 216856-quiet@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):
Hello Evgeny,
On 2003-10-21, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote:
> There is no need to depend on libtiff for Debian builds of Grace. The
> TIFF library is only needed for the PDF driver which is disabled (since
> PDFLib is not entirely free).
after removing the libtiff-dev from Build-Depends grace will compile
without an error in a clean chroot environment. But when I try to
compile it on my usual desktop the configure script still detects
libtiff and the Makefile links against the library. That is why I think
the pristine grace sources should be fixed, too.
Regards,
Torsten
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Message #15 received at 216856-quiet@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):
Torsten Werner wrote:
>>There is no need to depend on libtiff for Debian builds of Grace. The
>>TIFF library is only needed for the PDF driver which is disabled (since
>>PDFLib is not entirely free).
>
>
> after removing the libtiff-dev from Build-Depends grace will compile
> without an error in a clean chroot environment. But when I try to
> compile it on my usual desktop the configure script still detects
> libtiff and the Makefile links against the library. That is why I think
> the pristine grace sources should be fixed, too.
You're right, and there is a comment in configure.in:
dnl **** TODO: undefine unneeded libraries
But doing so in general is a dirty business ;-).
However, when Grace is ./configure'd with --disable-pdfdrv (as is the
case with the Debian package, I believe), the tiff library shouldn't be
looked for.
Regards,
Evgeny
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Message #20 received at 216856-quiet@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):
On 2003-10-25, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote:
> However, when Grace is ./configure'd with --disable-pdfdrv (as is the
> case with the Debian package, I believe), the tiff library shouldn't
> be looked for.
No I do not use the --disable-pdfdrv to make it easier to rebuild the
Debian package with pdfdrv support when people need it. But usually I
recommend using epstopdf to create PDF files because it is free. Maybe I
will disable pdfdrv for the next upload in about 5 days - that is the
time to get the current version into testing.
Torsten
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Message #25 received at 216856-quiet@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):
Torsten Werner wrote:
>>However, when Grace is ./configure'd with --disable-pdfdrv (as is the
>>case with the Debian package, I believe), the tiff library shouldn't
>>be looked for.
>
>
> No I do not use the --disable-pdfdrv to make it easier to rebuild the
> Debian package with pdfdrv support when people need it.
Ah, indeed, sorry. But I'm pretty sure it was used in the past... In any case,
the tiff dependency is solely for pdflib, which, until late versions, didn't
have a working "pdflib-config" script, so a kludge workaround had to be
implemented.
BTW, it occurred to me that the "xlibs" dependency is redundant, too, since
Lesstif is in the list.
Regards,
Evgeny
Reply sent to Torsten Werner <twerner@debian.org>:
You have taken responsibility.
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Notification sent to Evgeny Stambulchik <fnevgeny@plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il>:
Bug acknowledged by developer.
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Message #30 received at 216856-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):
Source: grace
Source-Version: 5.1.13-2
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
grace, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
grace_5.1.13-2.diff.gz
to pool/main/g/grace/grace_5.1.13-2.diff.gz
grace_5.1.13-2.dsc
to pool/main/g/grace/grace_5.1.13-2.dsc
grace_5.1.13-2_ia64.deb
to pool/main/g/grace/grace_5.1.13-2_ia64.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 216856@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Torsten Werner <twerner@debian.org> (supplier of updated grace package)
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Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 21:40:25 +0100
Source: grace
Binary: grace
Architecture: source ia64
Version: 5.1.13-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Torsten Werner <twerner@debian.org>
Changed-By: Torsten Werner <twerner@debian.org>
Description:
grace - An XY plotting tool
Closes: 215359 216856 222380
Changes:
grace (5.1.13-2) unstable; urgency=low
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* removed libtiff build dependency and added --disable-pdfdrv to configure,
closes: #216856
* fixed man page, closes: #222380
* applied a patch provided by Evgeny Stambulchik
<fnevgeny@plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il>, hopefully closes: #215359
Files:
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1ea079a2096104445aaac24823ac43d4 29732 math optional grace_5.1.13-2.diff.gz
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