vidwhacker depends on netpbm

[Hein Zelle]

The vidwhacker screensaver depends on the netpbm package, if not installed it fails with a nondescriptive error "vidwhacker: 0-length data". Installing the netpbm package fixes the problem.

I think a dependency on the netpbm package should be added to the xscreensaver-data-extra package.

This was tested on a fresh Dapper install as of 26-9-2006.
package versions:
ii netpbm 10.0-10ubuntu1
ii xscreensaver 4.23-4ubuntu8
ii xscreensaver-data 4.23-4ubuntu8
ii xscreensaver-data-extra 4.23-4ubuntu8
ii xscreensaver-gl 4.23-4ubuntu8
ii xscreensaver-gl-extra 4.23-4ubuntu8

[Ralf Hildebrandt (ralf-hildebrandt)]

Source: xscreensaver
Source-Version: 4.21-6

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
xscreensaver, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

xscreensaver-gl_4.21-6_i386.deb
  to pool/main/x/xscreensaver/xscreensaver-gl_4.21-6_i386.deb
xscreensaver-gl_4.21-6_sparc.deb
  to pool/main/x/xscreensaver/xscreensaver-gl_4.21-6_sparc.deb
xscreensaver_4.21-6.diff.gz
  to pool/main/x/xscreensaver/xscreensaver_4.21-6.diff.gz
xscreensaver_4.21-6.dsc
  to pool/main/x/xscreensaver/xscreensaver_4.21-6.dsc
xscreensaver_4.21-6_i386.deb
  to pool/main/x/xscreensaver/xscreensaver_4.21-6_i386.deb
xscreensaver_4.21-6_sparc.deb
  to pool/main/x/xscreensaver/xscreensaver_4.21-6_sparc.deb

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to <email address hidden>,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Ralf Hildebrandt <email address hidden> (supplier of updated xscreensaver package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Format: 1.7
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 11:20:43 +0200
Source: xscreensaver
Binary: xscreensaver xscreensaver-gl
Architecture: source i386 sparc
Version: 4.21-6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Ralf Hildebrandt <email address hidden>
Changed-By: Ralf Hildebrandt <email address hidden>
Description:
 xscreensaver - Automatic screensaver for X
 xscreensaver-gl - GL(Mesa) screen hacks for xscreensaver
Closes: 118089 118881 127276 129124 137073 145814 302777 318512 320446 323841 326534
Changes:
 xscreensaver (4.21-6) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * patch against stop_the_insanity() (closes: #323841)
   * patch typo in the whirlygig.6x man page (closes: #326534)
   * patch against run_hack() in driver/demo-Gtk.c (closes: #302777)
   * fix dependencies (closes: #318512)
   * closing old stuff that's already fixed (closes: #118089, #118881, #137073, #145814, #129124)
   * closing old stuff that's WONTFIX (closes: #127276)
   * relax dependency on netpbm (closes: #320446)
   * fix build dependencies for gl and glu
   * fix lintian bugs about debian-control-with-duplicate-fields conflicts: 12, 15
   * fix lintian bug (man pages for flow and intermomentary)
   * fix lintian bug syntax-error-in-debian-changelog line 313 "unrecognised line"
Files:
 6e87e6f8e440bc4e8228328f69b0a18d 872 x11 optional xscreensaver_4.21-6.dsc
 b729e140946d08561e6e14779346174b 118203 x11 optional xscreensaver_4.21-6.diff.gz
 71683a5fbfa1af87ddc5eaf626919341 3747514 x11 optional xscreensaver_4.21-6_i386.deb
 02b60e9b3f715dd39ffe7620b849cd02 2831368 x11 optional xscreensaver-gl_4.21-6_i386.deb
 348c6a52f5f8b33ae7850bc734c50bc3 3971404 x11 optional xscreensaver_4.21-6_sparc.deb
 b494a5f29b57fc8ea6c87d87e958cb2c 2935430 x11 optional xscreensaver-gl_4.21-6_sparc.deb

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[Hein Zelle (zelle)]

The vidwhacker screensaver depends on the netpbm package, if not installed it fails with a nondescriptive error "vidwhacker: 0-length data". Installing the netpbm package fixes the problem.

I think a dependency on the netpbm package should be added to the xscreensaver-data-extra package.

This was tested on a fresh Dapper install as of 26-9-2006.
package versions:
ii netpbm 10.0-10ubuntu1
ii xscreensaver 4.23-4ubuntu8
ii xscreensaver-data 4.23-4ubuntu8
ii xscreensaver-data-extra 4.23-4ubuntu8
ii xscreensaver-gl 4.23-4ubuntu8
ii xscreensaver-gl-extra 4.23-4ubuntu8

[Hein Zelle (zelle)]

This bug is still present in identical fashion in ubuntu 6.10.

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

$ apt-cache show xscreensaver-data-extra | grep Depends:
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.5-0ubuntu1), ... netpbm