Bug#503122: gnuplottex: fails to compile example

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 23.10.08 martin f krafft (madduck@debian.org) wrote:
> also sprach Norbert Preining <norbert@mithrandir.localnet> [2008.10.23.0131 +0200]:

Hi Martin,

> > Shell escapes are disallowed for security reasons. Please edit
> > 95NonPath.cnf, line
> > 	shell_escape = f
> > and call update-texmf, or call tex with -shell-escape
> > 
> > AFAIR bug has already been closed.
> 
> I reopened it, asking for clarification of the docs, because while
> this all makes sense, it wasn't obvious to me at all.
> 
Later Norbert replied:

<snip>
Sorry, but this *is* clearly stated:

- the latex package option defines the behaviour of the latex code,
  so the <shell> option will try to generate the images. Other , the
  documentation says "USE" shell escapes
- since that needs changes to either the config files or the cmd line
  this is stated clearly in the introduction.

Don't mix the latex class option with the cmd line argument for
latex.

The documentation clearly states
- the <shell> option *USES* shell escapes
- the -shell-escapes *ALLOWS* them
Think about some program
	./foobar -use-sudo
that tries to use sudo to format the whole filesystem, but without
sudo configured to allow it it wont work.

I consider this clear enough, and I will anyway not change single
package docs. So we either close or let it rot.
<snap>

What to do with this bug now?

Thanks,
  Hilmar
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