What is missing for LyX 2.4?

[Cor Blom]

Op 10-05-2023 om 11:36 schreef 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

I understand. Thanks. I assume that information will be in the release 
notes, I will find it when I'll do the update to 2.4 and make sure to 
include the right dependencies.

Cor