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and subject line Bug#1091821: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #995808,
regarding --help does not mention required --enable-local-file-access
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: wkhtmltopdf
Version: 0.12.6-1
Severity: important
Hello,
Thank you for packaging wkhtmltopdf!
wkhtmltopdf version 0.12.6 blocks by default access to local files (note
the "Warning: Blocked access to file"):
$ wkhtmltopdf test.html test.pdf
Loading page (1/2)
Warning: Blocked access to file
Error: Failed to load about:blank, with network status code 301 and http
status code 0 - Protocol "about" is unknown
Printing pages (2/2)
Done
Exit with code 1 due to network error: ProtocolUnknownError
Using --enable-local-file-access makes it work:
$ wkhtmltopdf --enable-local-file-access test.html test.pdf
Loading page (1/2)
Printing pages (2/2)
Done
However, earlier version of wkhtmltopdf did not support
--enable-local-file-access, and using it would cause it to error out
complaining about usage of a non-existing option.
A program calling wkhtmltopdf for rendering needs to figure out when
--enable-local-file-access is needed and when it's harmful, here's an
example use case:
https://github.com/Truelite/python-a38/issues/6
To avoid needing to parse and compare --version output, I had opted to
parse the output of --help: if the option was documented, then it was
needed; if it was not documented, then it wasn't supported.
The version of wkhtmltopdf currently in stable requires
--enable-local-file-access but does not document it (!!)
causing both a conundrum for users who get an error message and no
documentation on the option that would fix it, and for software trying
to figure out the effective CLI interface for manipulating wkhtmltopdf
as a backend tool.
Enrico
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.0
APT prefers stable-security
APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_IE:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages wkhtmltopdf depends on:
ii libc6 2.31-13
ii libgcc-s1 10.2.1-6
ii libqt5core5a 5.15.2+dfsg-9
ii libqt5gui5 5.15.2+dfsg-9
ii libqt5network5 5.15.2+dfsg-9
ii libqt5printsupport5 5.15.2+dfsg-9
ii libqt5svg5 5.15.2-3
ii libqt5webkit5 5.212.0~alpha4-11
ii libqt5widgets5 5.15.2+dfsg-9
ii libstdc++6 10.2.1-6
Versions of packages wkhtmltopdf recommends:
ii tigervnc-standalone-server [xserver] 1.11.0+dfsg-2
ii xserver-xephyr [xserver] 2:1.20.11-1
ii xserver-xorg [xserver] 1:7.7+22
wkhtmltopdf suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Version: 0.12.6-2+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package wkhtmltopdf has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1091821
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.
Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.
This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
[email protected].
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Paul Tagliamonte (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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