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Gencho
11-26-2004, 03:53 AM
Hello,

I have noticed this netpbm problem: pnmquant doesn't work with stdin. However, I am not sure if I should report this in the Debian bug tracking system. Is netpbm 10.0-5 a Debian package? I can't see the version number there.

Is the version of Perl is also important (pnmquant is Perl script)?

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Here is the bug description


This doesn't work and produces an error message and a zero length file.

$ ppmmake red 400 300 | pnmquant 16 > tmp_quant.ppm
pnmcolormap: making histogram...
pnmcolormap: 1 colors found
pnmcolormap: Image already has few enough colors (<=16). Keeping same
colors.
pnmremap: EOF / read error reading magic number
pnmremap failed, rc=256


And here is what works:

ppmmake red 400 300 > tmp.ppm ; pnmquant 16 tmp.ppm > tmp_quant.ppm


Bye,
Gencho

Gencho
11-27-2004, 09:00 AM
However, I am not sure if I should report this in the Debian bug tracking system. Is netpbm 10.0-5 a Debian package? I can't see the version number there.

BTW, i have noticed that the version of netpbm isn't 10.0-5, but 2:10.0-5. It seems to be a known bug that dpkg -l doesn't display epoch numbers. :(