Bug 462497

Summary:	picttoppm missing from netpbm package
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Penelope Fudd <bugzilla.redhat.com>
Component:	netpbm	Assignee:	Jindrich Novy <jnovy>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Penelope Fudd 2008-09-16 18:23:00 UTC

Description of problem:
I had to convert a pict file, and was surprised to not find picttoppm, even though ppmtopict was present.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
netpbm-progs-10.35.48-1.fc8

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum -y install netpbm-progs
2. which picttoppm
3. man picttoppm
4. which ppmtopict
5. man ppmtopict
  
Actual results:
picttoppm: Command not found.
No manual entry for picttoppm
/usr/bin/ppmtopict
Ppmtopict User Manual...(with SEE ALSO: picttoppm)

Expected results:
/usr/bin/picttoppm
Picttoppm User Manual...
/usr/bin/ppmtopict
Ppmtopict User Manual...

Additional info:
I didn't check for other missing files, but I did download the svn version of the upstream package.  picttoppm is present.
svn checkout https://netpbm.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/netpbm/advanced netpbm

Comment 1 Jindrich Novy 2008-09-18 12:22:19 UTC

Yes, the picttoppm.c is present among netpbm sources, but upstream decided to drop this utility because it is, in their words, unfixable. The first line of ppmtopict.c says:

#error "Unfixable. Don't ship me"

If you are still interested in the utility, please ask upstream to readd it.