What is missing for LyX 2.4?

[Pavel Sanda]

On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 11:13:52AM +0200, Cor Blom wrote:
> >On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 09:26:19AM +0200, Cor Blom wrote:
> >>openSUSE does contain GM, but it applies a patch to disable some coders. I
> >
> >Thanks for the info Cor.
> >
> >I guess it's in your hands to add new dependencies for converters that
> >will serve as a workarounds for eps conversion - our only way left AFAICS.
> >
> >Pavel
> 
> The workaround is to install ImageMagick-config-7-upstream and to remove
> Imagemagick-config-7-SUSE.
> 
> If you move to GM, does this mean that IM will stop working?

No. But I don't think we are moving to GM because it apparatnetly won't solve
the problem once for all.

What I meant by workaround was to add e.g. pdftoppm (on debian part of poppler-utils)
to runtime dependencies of lyx package. In 2.4 we detect if IM is under ban - in that
case we try to add pdftoppm to converters so insetad of IM's eps->png we use
eps->pdf->png with help of pdftoppm (see bd0510b08). We need to look on PNG -> EPS
path yet.

No fiddling with packages on the side of user is necessary then.

Pavel