Bug 448347
Summary: | FIle conflict of /usr/bin/ebb with dvipdfmx | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Mamoru TASAKA <mtasaka> |
Component: | dvipdfm | Assignee: | Jonathan Underwood <jonathan.underwood> |
Status: | CLOSED NEXTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | rawhide | CC: | jnovy, pertusus |
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Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Last Closed: | 2008-07-21 16:51:22 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Mamoru TASAKA
2008-05-26 06:19:42 UTC
Ah, yes, thanks for the report. I'll compare the two ebb programs and see if there's any differences. This is the problem with packaging two forked codebases, alas. [Aside: at some point I think we should drop dvipdfm, but I'm not sure that now is the right time.] Ok, have added a patch to the dvipdfmx package which renames ebb to ebbx. This is included in package 0-0.23.20080520cvs http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=628805 I contacted the upstream dvipdfmx maintainer about this, and the following is his reply: Thanks for your report. Actually there were two bounding box extraction utilities, ebb and xbb. As you might know, ebb is quite old and it is not useful in these days because it does not support pdf files with version 1.4 or higher. Moreover, the bounding box calculated by ebb from JPEG or PNG makes different size figures as compared to the result by pdfTeX. So we made a new bounding box extraction program xbb. Recently, Karl Berry, the maintainer of TeXLive suggested to combine those programs into dvipdfmx. He wanted just one executable, and the name of the new extraction utility became "extractbb". It behaves as xbb and with "-m" option, it behaves as ebb (but more powerful). Anyway, as I guess, Karl wanted to remove the original (buggy) ebb from TeXLive. So there may be no problem with TeXLive. Moreover, I do not want the name "ebbx". If you want to remain the original "ebb". Just do not make the link, because if someone wants a new ebb, he can use "extractbb -m" instead. |