[Bug 1409280] Re: Graphviz's sfdp is seriuosly crippled without a triangulation library

[John Ellson]

Can you use alien to convert a gts rpm to a deb ?

     https://www.howtoforge.com/converting_rpm_to_deb_with_alien


On 05/19/2016 12:25 PM, Stephen North wrote:
> Greetings. Is there any hope of seeing graphviz with sfdp with libgts (triangulation) back ported to ubuntu 14.04 which I'm using for a project in AWS?  Otherwise I can just build everything from scratch like I'm always telling other people :-)
> Stephen North
>

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Title:
  Graphviz's sfdp is seriuosly crippled without a triangulation library

Status in graphviz package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in graphviz package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  The Graphviz package is built --without-gts. This is bad news for
  sfdp, which complains “Error: remove_overlap: Graphviz not built with
  triangulation library” and fails to produce the beautiful output it
  creates when compiled --with-gts.

  I saw no real justification for this setting, other than a note from
  2008 saying that the flag was added to prevent GTS from being linked
  in “for now”.

  It's been nearly eight years... maybe time to reconsider?

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