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Re: No release/transition to libpoppler 0.18 ?



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2012/2/10 shirish शिरीष <shirishag75@gmail.com>:
> Hi all,
> A few weeks/months back libpoppler 0.18 got released. The version we
> have in Debian (running sid) is 0.16.7 which was released in Jun 2011.
> Please see  http://poppler.freedesktop.org/releases.html .
> Subsequently a wishlist bug was filed.
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=644447 . If one sees
> the bug then one can see Mr. Martin Pitt sharing debdiffs for
> libpoppler when they are doing the same for ubuntu.
>
> Now during that time-frame I have been seeing various errors while
> viewing pdf's which I did suspect were due to the library being old.
> The latest victims though is the Open Advice e-book.  Please see
> https://github.com/lydiapintscher/Open-Advice/issues/41
>
> I tried to see if the maintainer Monsieur Loic Minier had asked for
> transition but was unable to find anything of value.
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=release.debian.org;dist=unstable
>
> I know that in couple of months (or a little more) we would be looking
> at Freeze. Is there possibility of getting a fresh release in soonish
> ?
>
> Looking forward to know more.

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