Ubuntu
grace package

grace, grace6 not compiled with PDF support

Bug #119638 reported by GiuseppeVerde
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Grace
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
grace (Debian)
Won't Fix
Unknown
grace (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
grace6 (Debian)
Fix Released
Unknown
grace6 (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: grace

grace and grace6 support PDF. However, it appears that the Ubuntu packages have not compiled in this support.

Please compile in PDF support.

Revision history for this message
GiuseppeVerde (launchpad-digitasaru) wrote :

PDF export requires PDFlib Lite http://www.pdflib.com/products/pdflib-family/pdflib-lite/

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GiuseppeVerde (launchpad-digitasaru) wrote :

Confirmed to work with PDFLib Lite. I've installed it locally. Can someone please roll this out?

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Ming Hua (minghua) wrote :

PDFlib Lite has a non-commercial license and therefore must go to multiverse (if other parts of the license is okay). If grace/grace6 links to PDFlib Lite, grace/grace6 must go to multiverse as well.

I don't see this happening.

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Evgeny Stambulchik (fnevgeny) wrote :

In principle, one can link against a dummy PDFlib library having proper soname but empty stubs for entry calls. Such a library can be freely distributed, I guess (don't think the API itself is copyrighted). Then those wishing to use the PDF export (and agreeing to the non-commercial clause) may install real pdflib from multiverse or other repository.

Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)
Changed in grace-plotting-tool:
status: New → Invalid
Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)
Changed in grace6 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in grace (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in grace (Debian):
status: Unknown → New
Changed in grace6 (Debian):
status: Unknown → New
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in grace (Debian):
status: New → Won't Fix
Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)
Changed in grace (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
Changed in grace6 (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
Revision history for this message
Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex) wrote :

Marked as invalid in Ubuntu, as explained at debbugs #568393

grace's PDF support is deliberately disabled because PDFLib Lite isn't
DFSG-free software (no commercial use). It can't be linked both because it
would kick grace out of main into non-free, and because PDFLib isn't packaged
for Debian, so it's not an option even then. See README.Debian for the two
workarounds.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in grace6 (Debian):
status: New → Won't Fix
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in grace6 (Debian):
status: Won't Fix → Fix Released
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Nicola Ferralis (feranick) wrote :

Just for clarification, the bug wasn't fixed in debian6. Rather, it was closed, as debian6 has been removed from the main repos (in Debian and Ubuntu).

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