pd-iemlib: request for review/sponsoring

[Felipe Sateler]

On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 2:36 PM, IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig at iem.at> wrote:
> On 2013-12-13 15:51, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>> so what's the recommended (minimal) package to build PDFs from DOCs?
>>
>> I guess that'd be the package wv.  Or if results of that is too ugly,
>> then maybe unoconv.
>>
>> To check alternatives, install apt-xapian-index and run this command:
>>
>>   $ axi-cache search word pdf
>
> `wv` gives me dismal results, so i tried `unoconv` which looks ok.
> unfortunately, `unoconv` seems to not work properly in a pbuilder
> environment, and even less so on the various build-machines.
>
> doing a bit of research, i've found the following changelog entry for
> the "pd-pmpd" package:
>
> Felipe Sateler wrote on 2010-11-05 23:16:25:
>> Use the upstream provided pdf file
>>
>> Unoconv is unreliable for use on buildds, due to OpenOffice
>> apparently needing a desktop environment running.
>
> so in this package, the decision to build the pdf from source was undone.
> hmm.
>
> while i keep trying with various packages (e.g. `antiword`, which
> doesn't like UTF-8 when outputting PDFs), i would welcome very much any
> *more* hints regarding this problem.
> this ought to be a common problem.

I had forgotten that I had indeed undone a doc-pdf conversion fo this
reason. Sorry for not remembering.

I think the best option is to verify that the pdf file can be
generated with libreoffice. If it can, lets make a note in
debian/copyright, but not build it with the package. While building
everything is best, at this point it cannot be automated reasonably
with current debian infrastructure. Let us not loose sleep over it.

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler