severity 659944 wishlist
retitle 659944 quilt graph should fail gracefully when graphviz is missing
thanks

On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Jari Aalto wrote:
> Running command:
> 
>   quilt graph --reduce
> 
> Causes program to die with an error:
> 
>    Can't exec "tred": No such file or directory at 
> /usr/lib/perl/5.14/IO/File.pm line 66, <STDIN> line 1.
> 
> Missing item from debian/control::Depends?

No, it's "graphviz" and it's in "Suggests". But we should probably deal
better with the missing command... something like:

"The tred command is missing. It's usually provided by graphviz. Please
install it if you want to use quilt's graph command."

Cheers,
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