Bug#986686: missing b-d netpbm?

[Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>]

On 4/9/21 11:14 PM, Hilmar Preuße wrote:
> Am 09.04.2021 um 15:57 teilte Matthias Klose mit:
> 
> Hi Matthias,
> 
>> On the Ubuntu buildd, the package ftbfs with a missing b-d. Adding netpbm
>> fixes this, although I don't yet see why it doesn't fail on the Debian
>> buildds. netpbm only shows as a Recommends in the Debian
>> build log.
>>
>> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texworks-manual/20210308-1/+build/21339493
>>
> On Debian I can convert png to eps files using convert:
> 
> hille@debian-amd64-sid:~$ ls -l replaceDialog.*
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 hille hille 26755 May  7  2015 replaceDialog.png
> hille@debian-amd64-sid:~$ convert replaceDialog.png replaceDialog.eps
> hille@debian-amd64-sid:~$ ls -l replaceDialog.*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 hille hille 774464 Apr  9 23:04 replaceDialog.eps
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 hille hille  26755 May  7  2015 replaceDialog.png
> 
> Doing the same on Ubuntu 20.10 fails:
> 
> ubuntu@ubuntu2010:~$ convert replaceDialog.png replaceDialog.eps
> convert-im6.q16: attempt to perform an operation not allowed by the security
> policy `EPS' @ error/constitute.c/IsCoderAuthorized/408.
> 
> b/c the /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml differs between Debian & Ubuntu.
> 
> The Makefile has a fallback to netpbm, but this does not work as we do not
> declare a B-D on netpbm. We could simply add it.
> 
> What do you think?

yes, that would be nice. Afaics, Ubuntu disabled that explicitly in
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/imagemagick/8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu3

diff at
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/429710949/imagemagick_8%3A6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu2_8%3A6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1ubuntu3.diff.gz

Matthias