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FS#16317 - [pstoedit] add -quiet flag

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Olaf Leidinger (leidola) - Tuesday, 22 September 2009, 20:01 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Tuesday, 26 January 2010, 12:37 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Kieslich (tobias)
Ronald van Haren (pressh)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Inkscape contains a patch for it's LaTeX-plugin. This patch makes inkscape call pstoedit using the -quiet flag.
Upstream does not support this command line flag and various distributions use a patch to add this flag.
Maybe archlinux should support this flag, too as our version of inkscape needs it.

You can get the patch from

http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewvc/devel/pstoedit/pstoedit-3.45-quiet.patch?view=co

This task depends upon

Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Tuesday, 26 January 2010, 12:37 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Assumed fixed in latest version. No responses in +2 months.
Comment by Olaf Leidinger (leidola) - Tuesday, 22 September 2009, 20:11 GMT
I just realized that there is a new version of pstoedit (3.50), which isn't included in arch, yet (I notified the maintainer), which supports the flag "-q" for quiet mode. So a solution would be using the latest version of pstoedit AND changing the patch included in inkscape.
Comment by Matthew Gyurgyik (pyther) - Thursday, 24 September 2009, 17:51 GMT
I am not a developer, but generally packages do not get patched for feature requests.
If you believe this should be the default behavior, than bug upstream about it or use abs to compile the pkg with your patch.
Comment by Olaf Leidinger (leidola) - Thursday, 24 September 2009, 18:06 GMT
As I wrote above: it won't be necessary to patch pstoedit as the latest upstream version has support for quiet mode.

> ... but generally packages do not get patched for feature requests.

Well, this "feature request" is only necessary due to a patch in inkscape, which also isn't upstream and breaks pstoedit.
Comment by Laszlo Papp (djszapi) - Saturday, 07 November 2009, 16:48 GMT
extra/pstoedit 3.50-1 version is available, so is it fixed then ?
Comment by Ronald van Haren (pressh) - Monday, 09 November 2009, 12:53 GMT
Yes I think it was fixed upstream (at least part of the patch was included upstream). Can someone verify if inkscape does indeed work, I don't really know how to use it and how to test it properly.

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