[Simple-cdd-devel] Bug#809579: simple-cdd: Building with custom splash fails - missing "ppmtolss16" (missing dependency: syslinux-utils)

[Alexandre Rosenberg]

Package: simple-cdd
Version: 0.5.0
Severity: normal

Hello,

I am using simple-cdd on Debian stable. I a small issue when trying to include a custom splash screen:

1. Following line was added to simple-cdd configuration file (profile.conf)

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SPLASHPNG="$HOME/my-simple-cdd/profiles/custom_splash.png"
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2. Generating the iso using this profile failed:

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(...)
  Adding BIOS boot code for amd64 on CD1
  gtk/vmlinuz identical to ../vmlinuz. Linking
/home/iso/my-simple-cdd/tmp//debian-cd/tools/boot/jessie/boot-x86: line 393: ppmtolss16: command not found
ppmquant: making histogram...
ppmquant: 16 colors found
ppmquant: choosing 16 colors...
ppmquant: mapping image to new colors...
      FAILED: error 127
    Failed to start disc 1, error 32512
Makefile:408: recipe for target 'image-trees' failed
make: *** [image-trees] Error 127
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3. I figured out I was missing the tool "ppmtolss16" which is part of the package "syslinux-utils" 

After installing the package "syslinux-utils" everything works as expected.


For this reason, I am wondering if "syslinux-utils" should not be made a dependency.

Regards,

Alexandre Rosenberg

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages simple-cdd depends on:
ii  apt-utils    1.0.9.8.1
ii  dctrl-tools  2.23
ii  debian-cd    3.1.17
ii  debootstrap  1.0.67
ii  lsb-release  4.1+Debian13+nmu1
ii  python       2.7.9-1
ii  reprepro     4.16.0-1
ii  rsync        3.1.1-3
ii  wget         1.16-1

Versions of packages simple-cdd recommends:
ii  dose-distcheck  3.3~beta1-3

Versions of packages simple-cdd suggests:
pn  qemu-system | qemu-kvm  <none>

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