Paul Howarth wrote:
I was going to raise a bug about the missing picttoppm binary in the
netpbm-progs package but when I looked at the spec file and the patches
for netpbm, I discovered that picttoppm was deliberately removed,
apparently for security reasons. The patch netpbm-10.23-security.patch
removes picttoppm from the list of programs to build in the Makefile,
and adds the following line to the start of the picttoppm code:
#error "Unfixable. Don't ship me"
So instead I have raised a bug about the package containing a manpage
for a program that is not shipped:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=146863
Thanks Paul!
The usage of picttoppm is a bit uncommon
# picttoppm file.pict > file.ppm
but I don't think this is what the folks at redhat meant.
I'll look at the bugzilla entry every now and then.
Best regards,
Hannes.
