[Bug 1409280] Re: Graphviz's sfdp is seriuosly crippled without a triangulation library

[Fede Heinz]

I'm using the grapviz_2.38.0-5ubuntu0 sources package from Utopic. The
one linked to from http://packages.ubuntu.com/utopic/graphviz. Inside
graphviz_2.38.0-5ubuntu0.1.debian.tar.xz you will find a debian/rules
file that configures the package --without-gts.

In
http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/g/graphviz/graphviz_2.38.0-5ubuntu0.1/changelog,
in the release notes for graphviz (2.20.2-1) you will find a note that
says “Add “--without-gts” to configure arguments to make sure not to
link against GTS, at least for now.” Unfortunately, no justification why
that was a good idea at the time.

Which git are you looking at?

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Title:
  Graphviz's sfdp is seriuosly crippled without a triangulation library

Status in graphviz package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The Graphviz package is built --without-gts. This is bad news for
  sfdp, which complains “Error: remove_overlap: Graphviz not built with
  triangulation library” and fails to produce the beautiful output it
  creates when compiled --with-gts.

  I saw no real justification for this setting, other than a note from
  2008 saying that the flag was added to prevent GTS from being linked
  in “for now”.

  It's been nearly eight years... maybe time to reconsider?

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