Question: what to do when GitHub code works but Ubuntu package doesn't (same version)

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

On 2023-08-07 15:36, Michael Jeltsch wrote:
> Dear Ubuntu Developers,
> I am an end user scientist of Ubuntu at the University of Helsinki,
> Finland. We use the FigTree program (figtree, graphical phylogenetic tree
> viewer) for our work and we install it from the Ubuntu repositories
> (Science, universe). We published recently some of our findings, mentioning
> that we used FigTree for the visualization (
> https://doi.org/10.1007/s10456-023-09874-9). However, we always needed to
> export to PDF and then convert to SVG to do our work because the direct
> export to SVG always failed. However, we know that the GitHub code of the
> same 1.4.4 version works when downloaded directly from GitHub. Therefore it
> should be possible to fix the Ubuntu package. I also do not know whether
> the issue still exists in the newer packages. We are always staying on the
> latest stable LTS (atm 22.04), because our projects stretch over many years
> and changing major version numbers has been a problem in the past...

Can't really tell. But the Debian/Ubuntu version of figtree (version 
1.4.4-5) does include a few patches, and if you have found that that 
version does not work while the upstream github code works, the best way 
to report the issue is via a Debian bug:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?repeatmerged=no&src=figtree

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HTH

Gunnar Hjalmarsson