Bug#469416: graphviz: PostScript output is broken in dot and neato

2008-03-07 Thread Emden R. Gansner
Max Alekseyev wrote: Relying on the additional, separately supplied resources is not harmful. But silently ignoring the absence of *necessary* resource is, especially when such behavior produces an incorrect result. There is a complementary problem/complication. Graphviz uses fontconfig to

Bug#469416: graphviz: PostScript output is broken in dot and neato

2008-03-06 Thread Max Alekseyev
Emden R. Gansner wrote: If no error/warning is produced by an application and the result does not look as expected, a user has no idea of what went wrong. Therefore, this is a buggy behavior even if there exists a simple fix/workaround (of which the user is unaware). Well, if you are submitt

Bug#469416: graphviz: PostScript output is broken in dot and neato

2008-03-05 Thread Emden R. Gansner
Max Alekseyev wrote: Neither of these corresponds to a bug. I cannot agree with this statement. If no error/warning is produced by an application and the result does not look as expected, a user has no idea of what went wrong. Therefore, this is a buggy behavior even if there exists a sim

Bug#469416: graphviz: PostScript output is broken in dot and neato

2008-03-04 Thread Max Alekseyev
Package: graphviz Version: 2.16.1-2 Severity: important The PostScript output in 'dot' and 'neato' programs of Graphviz package is broken in most cases. Below I illustrate this bugreport with two examples using 'neato'. All mentioned input/output files are available in a sigle ZIP archive at: