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

[Paul Gevers]

Hi Michalis,

On 23-07-16 23:15, Michalis Kamburelis wrote:
> 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...

The second but is NOT a small bug. We are waiting for somebody to solve
the bug. Infinity (nickname in Ubuntu) is working on it and understands
the issue (just not the solution yet) but has his priorities elsewhere.
I hope he is able to share his insights with us soon. I would not be
able to solve the issue myself and others involved are reluctant to
remove the powerpc stack of packages that build depend on fpc.

> 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

I'll prod upstream ImageMagick once again to see if they are going to
fix the bug. I believe they considered it a real bug when I reported the
issue (see the blocking bug for the FTBFS bug). As long as the fpc on
powerpc issue isn't fixed though, I don't see the urgency to work around
the imagemagick issue, that may be solved in time.

Paul

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