On Tue 09 Oct 2018 at 16:16:08 +0200, Roger Price wrote: > On Tue, 9 Oct 2018, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 09 Oct 2018 at 14:29:59 +0200, Roger Price wrote: > > > It looks as if pamscale is missing from Netpbm in stretch. > > Please read http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/getting_netpbm.php > > Thanks for the link. A strange situation. In case any other Debian user > ever looks for "unimportant" programs in Netpbm, I attach the answer. Roger > > « But if you use Debian or Ubuntu, note that their Netpbm package is > essentially Netpbm 9.25 from 2002, minus a bunch of unimportant programs. > Also note that the Debian version numbering is not consistent with > Sourceforge Netpbm, so a program may appear to be from e.g. Sourceforge > Netpbm 10.0, but is actually 9.25. In 2002, Debian decided for various > reasons not to distribute regular Netpbm and instead created its own > variation of it. That variation was too hard to update with ongoing > development on the main branch of Netpbm, so no one has done so. Ubuntu is > based on Debian. There is a Debian bug report and a Ubuntu bug report about > this. The Debian bug report was opened in 2006 and something updating the > Debian package to current Sourceforge Netpbm was uploaded somewhere in June > 2017; it will presumably be in Debian and Ubuntu releases soon. (The > foregoing is so as of September 2017). »
The package (with pamscale) is in experimental. I am not familiar with the criteria which would get it into unstable. -- Brian.
