[Pkg-pascal-devel] view3dscene is marked for autoremoval from testing

[Michalis Kamburelis]

2016-07-23 6:39 GMT+02:00 Debian testing autoremoval watch
<noreply at release.debian.org>:
> view3dscene 3.15.0-5 is marked for autoremoval from testing on 2016-07-24
>
> It is affected by these RC bugs:
> 828120: view3dscene: FTBFS: convert: Non-conforming drawing primitive definition (push)
>
> It (build-)depends on packages with these RC bugs:
> 826300: fpc: fp-compiler not installable on powerpc since glibc 2.23
>

It's tomorrow, if I see correctly. Can it be remedied in time? It
would be unfortunate to have view3dscene removed from testing,
especially for such a small bug...

As far as I see, #828120 and #829063 are problems in ImageMagick SVG
rendering. One solution would be to use Inkscape to convert SVG to
PNG. I used Inkscape to create this view3dscene icon, and it never
failed me:) One can then use "convert" to get XPM from PNG, if needed.
This would introduce another build-depend requirement (Inkscape), but
it would work 100% reliably.

The Inkscape command-line to convert is simple:

  inkscape --export-width=32 --export-height=32 input.svg
--export-png=output.png

Regards,
Michalis