[PATCH v2 36/39] scripts: sphinx-pre-install: add a warning for Debian-based distros

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab]

On Some Debian-based distros, ImageMagick package has a broken
policy that causes LaTeX to fail while building docs.

Add a note about that.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 scripts/sphinx-pre-install.py | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/sphinx-pre-install.py b/scripts/sphinx-pre-install.py
index 324baa98a395..09a337509b23 100755
--- a/scripts/sphinx-pre-install.py
+++ b/scripts/sphinx-pre-install.py
@@ -782,6 +782,11 @@ class SphinxDependencyChecker(MissingCheckers):
 
             self.check_program("dvipng", DepManager.PDF_MANDATORY)
 
+        if not self.distro_msg:
+            self.distro_msg = \
+                "Note: ImageMagick is broken on some distros, affecting PDF output. For more details:\n" \
+                "\thttps://askubuntu.com/questions/1158894/imagemagick-still-broken-using-with-usr-bin-convert";
+
         return self.get_install_progs(progs, "apt-get install")
 
     def give_redhat_hints(self):
@@ -1193,7 +1198,7 @@ class SphinxDependencyChecker(MissingCheckers):
         self.distro_msg = \
             f"I don't know distro {self.system_release}.\n" \
             "So, I can't provide you a hint with the install procedure.\n" \
-            "There are likely missing dependencies.\n"
+            "There are likely missing dependencies."
 
         return self.get_install_progs(progs, None)
 
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