Re: poppler
Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> wrote:
> Frank Küster wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> These source packages embed xpdf source and should be fixed to use poppler
> if possible:
>
> gpdf
> pdftohtml
> kdegraphics (kpdf)
> koffice
> libextractor
AFAIK, poppler was created by the freedesktop people specifically in
order to replace xpdf code in Gnome and KDE applications. Therefore I
expect that at least kpdf an gpdf, and probably koffice will link
against poppler in a new release (and already do in CVS?)
> cupsys also embeds xpdf source, but uses xpdf-utils for current versions.
Yes, so this is not an issue for Debian currently, but it might be good
to urge upstream to do the switch.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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