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Bug#324704: marked as done (RFP: dvi2bitmap -- library and application to rapidly generate bitmaps from TeX DVI files)

Your message dated Thu, 24 Aug 2006 11:59:40 -0600
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and subject line WNPP bug closing
has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.

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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist


* Package name    : dvi2bitmap
  Version         : 0.13
  Upstream Author : Norman Gray <norman@astro.gla.ac.uk>
* URL             : https://sourceforge.net/projects/dvi2bitmap/
* License         : GPL
  Description     : library and application to rapidly generate bitmaps from TeX DVI files

(Include the long description here.)

dvi2bitmap is a utility to convert TeX DVI files directly to bitmaps,
without going through the complicated (and slow!) route of conversion
via PostScript and PNM.  The prime motivation for this is to prepare
mathematical equations for inclusion in HTML files, but there is a broad
range of uses beyond that.

dvi2bitmap is written in portable C++, and the program acts as a wrapper
round the libdvi2bitmap library (both static and shareable), which
abstracts DVI and PK files and their contents, Bitmaps, and various
other objects supporting these. The library has extensive API
documentation, and is intended to be useful for other projects.

It can generate XBM, XPM and GIF bitmaps, plus PNG, if you have the
libpng library installed.

Uses the same kpathsea font-searching library as other TeX programs,
again as long as you have the appropriate library installed.




I'm the author of the upstream package, but regrettably don't feel I
can commit right now to creating and maintaining the Debian package.
A few hours with the New Maintainer's Guide and dh_make tells me that I
can probably hack together the beginnings of a package, but also that it
would take more time than I can responsibly commit right now to produce
a package that would actually be submittable.

Also, the package in question contains -- indeed is primarily
-- a library: the New Maintainer's Guide advises against such a
thing being one's first package, and the Library Packaging Guide at
<http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html>
is intimidatingly long.

The current dvi2bitmap release uses autoconf, automake and libtool to
do its work.  It's currently built nightly on a half-dozen architectures
including Debian 3.0r3 on i386.  I hope it would, therefore, be relatively
easy to package for someone who knows (or is looking to practise) the
library voodoo, and any portability problems I'd take as upstream bugs
and fix and rerelease as soon as possible.  If it's possible to include
the debian/ materials in the current repository, so that I can generate
.deb packages as part of the normal release procedure, or if there's
anything else I can do to facilitate this, I'd be delighted to do it.

I wish I could do more, but my brain's rather full just now.  Here's
hoping someone wants a guinea pig....

All the best,

Norman
http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.iso88591 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

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Hello,

This is an automatic mail sent to close the RFP you have reported or 
are involved with.

Your RFP wnpp bug is being closed because of the following reasons:
- It is, as of today, older than 365 days.
- It hasn't had any activity recently.

As this is an automatic procedure, it could of course have something
wrong and probably it would be closing some bugs that are not 
intended by owners and submitters (like you) to be closed, for
example if the RFP is still of your interest, or there has been 
some kind of activity around it. In that case, please reopen the
bug, do it, DO IT NOW! (I don't want to be blamed because of
mass closing and not let people know that they can easily reopen
their bugs ;-).

To re-open it, you simply have to mail control@bugs.debian.org
with a body text like this:

reopen 324704
thanks bts

Further comments on the work done in the bug sent to
324704@bugs.debian.org would be truly welcomed.
Anyway, if you have any kind of problems when dealing with
the BTS, feel free to contact me and I'd be more than happy to help
you on this: <damog@debian.org>.

A similar process is being applied to other kind of wnpp bugs.

Thanks for your cooperation,

 -- David Moreno Garza <damog@debian.org>.

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