I built the pdf guide a while ago, and I noticed a few problems that I
managed to work around.
One point is that you need to have lots of other packages installed, and
if you don't, it doesn't say anything clear.
I installed all of the following to make it work:
asciidoc
texlive-full
docbook
source-highlight
context-nonfree
context-doc-nonfree
docbook-dsssl-doc
docbook-defguide
python-apt-doc
vim-doc
w3m
lynx
links
vim-scripts
epubcheck
sgmls-doc
(This was a while ago, under Debian Stretch.)
A second point is that under Buster and Bullseye, the convert program
(from ImageMagick) won't accept pdf's. The reason has to do with an old
Ghostscript but and security concerns.
This problem of convert losing this capability also causes the Debian
package pdfsandwich to no longer work. It is all a real problem. Note,
that there are many other ways to do what needs to be done. To put
images into a pdf you can use the Debian package img2pdf. To go the
other way, you can use pdfimages or pdftocairo (in poppler-utils).
Somehow it seems that this should be fixed in the imagemagick package
since there must be other programs that depend on it.
I agree with the comments from people about it probably not being a good
idea to just edit /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml to let Ghostscript do
stuff. That definitely makes me too nervous to do.
On Sun, Dec 19, 2021 at 9:33 PM Ryan Kavanagh <r...@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Another status update for those following at home:
>
> The mlton package (upstream release 20210117) now bootstraps and builds!
>
> For some reason I can't get the guide to compile (pdflatex spits out a
> bunch of errors and then dies, and the tool that calls pdflatex suggests
> the docbook input is invalid), so I might just temporarily disable
> building/installing it. I figure having an installable mlton package
> sans PDF guide is better than having no mlton package whatsoever in the
> meantime.
>
> I have considerably more time to work on this now that the semester is
> over, so I'm hoping to get it uploaded in the next week or so.
>
> Best,
> Ryan
>
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