Package: inkscape Version: 0.41-1 Severity: normal
Hi. Since I upgraded to version 0.41-1 Inkscape starts with an error dialogue: One or more extensions failed to load The failed extensions have been skipped. Inkscape will continue to run normally but those extensions will be unavailable. For details to troubleshoot this problem, please refer to the error log located at: /home/andreas/.inkscape/extension-errors.log This file says (in German): Erweiterung "Sketch Input" Laden fehlgeschlagen wegen die Abhängigkeiten konnten nicht aufgelöst werden. Abhängigkeit:: T_yp:executable ...Speicherort: path Zeichenkette: skconvert Erweiterung "Windows Metafile Input" Laden fehlgeschlagen wegen die Abhängigkeiten konnten nicht aufgelöst werden. Abhängigkeit:: T_yp:executable ...Speicherort: path Zeichenkette: wmf2svg Erweiterung "Postscript Input" Laden fehlgeschlagen wegen die Abhängigkeiten konnten nicht aufgelöst werden. Abhängigkeit:: T_yp:extension ...Speicherort: path Zeichenkette: org.inkscape.input.sk Erweiterung "EPS Input" Laden fehlgeschlagen wegen die Abhängigkeiten konnten nicht aufgelöst werden. Abhängigkeit:: T_yp:extension ...Speicherort: path Zeichenkette: org.inkscape.input.ps What this means is that the extensions "Sketch Input", "Windows Metafile Input", "Postscript Input", and "EPS Input" could not be loaded because of unresolved dependencies. The strings given are "skconvert", "wmf2svg", "org.inkscape.input.sk", and "org.inkscape.input.ps", respectively. The "..Speicherort" stuff with a bare "path" given as value is incomprehensible to me. In Inkscape's Wiki I found something on that error in the release notes at http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes041 "Upon launch, Inkscape checks the availability of various external programs that are used by installed Inkscape extensions. If some are missing, you get a warning box, and the complete list of unavailable extensions is in ~/.inkscape/extension-errors.log. Check that file and install additional software if you find that e.g. some import/export formats do not work (most commonly PS/EPS import which currently requires Skencil and pstoedit to be installed)." After installing Sketch, libwmf-bin and Dia (pstoedit was already installed), Inkscape starts without error dialogue. It seems that Inkscape's handling of import/export features for several file formats has been changed, right? So, without installing the packages given above import/export for these file formats will not work (any more). * This should be clarified in the program description. * Those packages should be "promoted" to "Recommends" instead of "Suggests" status in Inkscape's dependencies, because important functionality is provided through their use. Additionally, the error dialogue should produce some more helpful information. "Go, look in ~/.inkscape/extension-errors.log" may not be helpful for many users. If the program can write that information to this file, why can it not produce the same information in the error dialogue? It might even be put in understandable terms, like for example: " Could not start extension "Windows Metafile Input". Reason: Program/library package "libwmf-bin" is needed but was not found. Could not start extension "Postscript Input". Reason: Program/libary package "pstoedit" is needed but was not found. [...] " (By the way. The German translation of the error log could use some rephrasing, it's not particularly good. Or rather, leave the error log in English, but provide the improved error dialogue on the GUI.) Kind regards Andreas -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (400, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-1-386 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages inkscape depends on: ii libatk1.0-0 1.8.0-4 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libfontconfig1 2.2.3-4 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.3 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgc1 1:6.3-1 Conservative garbage collector for ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-6 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.6.1-3 The GLib library of C routines ii libglibmm-2.4-1 2.4.5-1 C++ wrapper for the GLib toolkit ( ii libgtk2.0-0 2.6.2-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libgtkmm-2.4-1 2.4.8-1 C++ wrappers for GTK+ 2.4 (shared ii libpango1.0-0 1.8.0-3 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-1 PNG library - runtime ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii libsigc++-2.0-0 2.0.6-1 Type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li ii libxft2 2.1.2-6 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxml2 2.6.16-2 GNOME XML library ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxslt1.1 1.1.12-5 XSLT processing library - runtime ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-3 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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