Bug#659701: texlive-pictures: pgfplots can't use gnuplot: set terminal table -> unknown or ambiguous terminal

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

reassign 659701 pgf
severity 659701 wishlist
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On 13.02.12 Neal H. Walfield (neal@walfield.org) wrote:

Hi Neal,

> > Bamm. Yes, I should have noticed that earlier: the pgf package is
> > maintained separately in Debian. Please install the Debian package
> > pgf to get the fix.
> > 
> > hille@sid:~ $ dpkg -l pgf
> > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> > |Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
> > |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> > ||/ Name           Version        Description
> > +++-==============-==============-============================================
> > ii  pgf            2.10-1         TeX Portable Graphic Format
> 
> This fixes the problem.  I had 2.00-1 installed, which is in stable,
> along with the incompatible version of gnuplot.
> 
> Perhaps pgf should change make the use of "set table" and "set
> terminal table" dependent on the version of gnuplot, e.g.:
> 
> if (substr(system("gnuplot --version"), strlen ("gnuplot "), 100) >=4.4) set table; else set terminal table;
> 
Next try to reassign.

However this bug is only available in Debian stable, not in unstable.
Hence I guess nobody will really care of this request (see #597495).
Lowering to wishlist.

H.
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