Description of problem: pngtopnm is misssing in the cauldron netpbm The should be an alias The manual says: DESCRIPTION This program is part of Netpbm(1) pngtopnm was obsoleted by pngtopam(1) , introduced with Netpbm 10.44 (September 2008). pngtopam is backward compatible with pngtopnm, plus adds many additional functions, including the ability to produce a PAM image that includes an alpha (transparency) channel. Starting in Release 10.48, pngtopnm is just an alias for pngtopam. pngtopnm remained in the Netpbm package through Release 10.47 because it may have fewer bugs than pngtopam in those releases, and may be faster in some environments. But pngtopnm's incompatibility with the most current PNG libraries makes it impractical to maintain along with pngtopam now. This miss makes programs such as lilypond not to build. Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce:
netpbm hasn't been updated in 2 years, so there's no recent change in it that should have broken lilypond building. The netpbm package is unmaintained, so you should feel free to try to update it :o)
Unless tv's attempt to port it to libpng16 causes the pngtopnm binary to not be produced.
CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud
(In reply to David Walser from comment #2) > Unless tv's attempt to port it to libpng16 causes the pngtopnm binary to not > be produced. OK, this may cause other packages not to build anymore. Need to look at Netpbm
(In reply to David Walser from comment #2) > Unless tv's attempt to port it to libpng16 causes the pngtopnm binary to not > be produced. Why not making a symlink to pngtopam since this replaces pngtopnm? BTW, Fedora has ver. 10.61.2 in the repos. Is there a problem to upgrade?
(In reply to Thomas Spuhler from comment #4) > Why not making a symlink to pngtopam since this replaces pngtopnm? I have no idea. If it's a valid drop-in replacement, I guess you can. > BTW, Fedora has ver. 10.61.2 in the repos. Is there a problem to upgrade? Not a problem, it's just that nobody has taken an interest in this package in a long time. I think the only times it was updated were during the Mageia 2 development cycle. tv updated it a few times early on, Funda updated it once, and I updated it once shortly before Mageia 2 release IIRC, and nobody's updated it since. My update of it was trivial as I was just syncing it with what was in Mandriva Cooker at the time. It's a rather complicated package, so it appears to be non-trivial to update, but please don't hesistate to take a crack at it.
(In reply to David Walser from comment #5) > (In reply to Thomas Spuhler from comment #4) > > Why not making a symlink to pngtopam since this replaces pngtopnm? > > I have no idea. If it's a valid drop-in replacement, I guess you can. not needed. Did it automagically after pngtopam built with libpng16 I am going to close this as resolved > > > BTW, Fedora has ver. 10.61.2 in the repos. Is there a problem to upgrade? > > Not a problem, it's just that nobody has taken an interest in this package > in a long time. I think the only times it was updated were during the > Mageia 2 development cycle. tv updated it a few times early on, Funda > updated it once, and I updated it once shortly before Mageia 2 release IIRC, > and nobody's updated it since. My update of it was trivial as I was just > syncing it with what was in Mandriva Cooker at the time. It's a rather > complicated package, so it appears to be non-trivial to update, but please > don't hesistate to take a crack at it. I will do it soon
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => FIXED