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Re: poppler (was: Work-needing packages report for Dec 30, 2005)



On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 09:33 +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> wnpp@debian.org wrote:
> 
> > The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested
> > through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the
> > last week.
> >
> > Total number of orphaned packages: 172 (new: 3)
> > Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 96 (new: 1)
> > Total number of packages requested help for: 20 (new: 0)
> >
> > Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > The following packages have been orphaned:
> >
> >    poppler (#344738), orphaned 4 days ago
> >      Reverse Depends: libpoppler-glib-dev libpoppler-dev abiword-plugins
> >        libpoppler-qt-dev libkpathsea4 evince libpoppler0c2-qt tetex-bin
> >        libpoppler0c2-glib
> 
> ... and hopefully some more in the future.  There are a couple of
> packages with copies of xpdf code in them (different minor versions, of
> course...), and they have been an annoying source of work every time a
> security issue pops up in xpdf.  As we (or rather Martin Pitt) have
> shown with tetex-bin, switching to poppler is quite easy; but for that
> the package should be well maintained.
> 
> I'd love to hear from the pkg-gnome maintainers, or anybody else, to
> take that package.

Just filled ITA on behalf of me and Gnome team.

Ondrej
-- 
Ondrej Sury <ondrej@sury.org>

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