[libvirt PATCH 08/31] docs: drop %.png: %.fig rule

[Michal Privoznik]

On 7/9/20 4:59 PM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 02:25:06PM +0200, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
>> convert bin is part of ImageMagick package and uses uniconvertor to
>> create png file from fig files.
>>
>> Unfortunately uniconvertor is python2 only and not available in most
>> recent distributions which makes the convert command fail with:
>>
>> sh: uniconvertor: command not found
>> /usr/bin/mv: cannot stat '/tmp/magick-1397138DRT8Pzx4Qmoc.svg': No such file or directory
>> convert: delegate failed `'uniconvertor' '%i' '%o.svg'; /usr/bin/mv '%o.svg' '%o'' @ error/delegate.c/InvokeDelegate/1958.
>> convert: unable to open file `/tmp/magick-1397138S8ARueJXLXkc': No such file or directory @ error/constitute.c/ReadImage/605.
>> convert: no images defined `docs/migration-managed-direct.png' @ error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/3226.
>>
>> It looks like that there are plans to somehow port uniconvertor into
>> python3 but as part of different project color-picker but the job is
>> far from complete.
> 
> FYI i would support replacing the .fig files in git with .svgs
> which will avoid the extra conversion step. The .fig stuff is just
> too anachronistic to be worth worrying about.

Actually, I think that is the right way to go instead of just removing 
this rule. Because if we ever change a *.fig file we have to remember to 
regenerate the corresponding .png file. And then we can drop .png files 
from our repos.

Michal