Bug 1564787 - FuzzyOcr uses gifinter which is no longer available
Summary: FuzzyOcr uses gifinter which is no longer available
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: spamassassin-FuzzyOcr
Version: 28
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Andrew Colin Kissa
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-04-07 21:38 UTC by Göran Uddeborg
Modified: 2019-05-28 23:40 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2019-05-28 23:40:35 UTC
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Description Göran Uddeborg 2018-04-07 21:38:11 UTC
Description of problem:
FuzzyOcr emits warnings like this:

apr  7 23:33:33.652 [32015] warn: FuzzyOcr: Cannot find executable for gifinter


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
spamassassin-FuzzyOcr-3.6.0-17.fc28.noarch
giflib-utils-5.1.4-1.fc28.x86_64


How reproducible:
Every time


Steps to Reproduce:
1. run "sa-learn --ham" on some legitimate message


Actual results:
Warning shown.


Expected results:
No warning.


Additional info:
As I understand it gifinter used to  be part of the giflib-utils package up to F27.  In the new version of giflib in F28, the program is no longer included.

Comment 1 Derek Atkins 2019-01-13 21:12:56 UTC
I created an upstream bug report for gifinter no longer being included in the giflib release tarball.  See https://sourceforge.net/p/giflib/bugs/115/

Comment 2 Bruno Larini 2019-02-15 12:27:49 UTC
Quoting the upstream maintainer Eric S. Raymond on his reply about the issue:
> Use the ImageMack conevert(1) tool. gifinter was removed in 2012.
> 
> I'm in the process of retiring as much of the tools part of the distribution as I can. If a job can be done by the ImageMagick suite, there's no good reason for it to live here.

As I have the same issue as OP, I am curious on how to solve FuzzyOcr dependency using ImageMagick, as suggested by him.

Comment 3 Ben Cotton 2019-05-02 19:54:05 UTC
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Comment 4 Ben Cotton 2019-05-28 23:40:35 UTC
Fedora 28 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2019-05-28. Fedora 28 is
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