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[Ralph Corderoy <ralph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I used pgmtopbm(1) on 9.10 only to find users on other distributions had
problems.  Turns out later netpbms deprecate pgmtopbm, saying
pamditherbw(1) is its replacement.  Ubuntu's netpbm doesn't have
pamditherbw;  it's too old and crufty.  Debian/Ubuntu have forked
netpbm, with all the problems that creates.  If there are licensing
issues then can we have a netpbm-nonfree for those of us that want to
co-exist with the other distros?

netpbm is a venerable workhorse.  It's a shame that Ubuntu effectively
doesn't have it.

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Debian/Ubuntu netpbm is many years out-of-date with upstream
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/270479
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