Bug#355788: vcg: pbm tools are useless
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 10:40:46PM +0100, Ahmed Baizid wrote:
> Package: vcg
> Severity: wishlist
>
> VCG comes with pbm utilities.
> The ImageMagick suite does a better job, I am sure.
> vcg debian package should not ship these three utilities.
I notice the same, but didn't test it. I suspect however that you are
right. I just checked, and they're not used internally at all. They
seem to be marked a special purpose utilities:
/*--------------------------------------------------------------------*
* There are excellent standard utilities for pbm-Files by Jef Poskanzer.
* The reason I wrote this rotation utility is that this is much faster
* on large files.
*
* This utility rotates a pbm-P4-file by 90 degree and produces a new
* pbm-P4-file. Synopsis: pbmrot90 <infile> <outfile>
*
* THIS UTILITY DOES NOT WORK WITH THE pbm-P1-format !!! IT IS NOT A
* GENERAL CONVERSION UTILITY.
*--------------------------------------------------------------------*/
I think it would still be okay to drop these binaries.
Justin
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