Re: Please remove the libfontconfig NMU from the delayed incoming
control: affects -1 src:poppler
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 3:56 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> I fully agree with Adrian that your “fix” is absolutely incorrect.
Thanks for the feedback. I've canceled the nmu.
> It will temporarily make xpdf work again, and break many other packages
> that have been built against the newer fontconfig.
Note that poppler also got hit with a similar issue once it was
rebuilt against fontconfig 2.11 (bug #730112), so the impact is
slightly larger than xpdf. Rebuilding poppler against fontconfig with
pthreads disabled (via my proposed patch) solves that problem as well.
I saw another "Assertion ... failed!" bug report lately, but don't
recall which package that was in, which may also be due to the same
underlying problem.
> Since the actual bug lies in xpdf, please update xpdf and I’ll add the
> relevant Breaks in fontconfig.
I think some effort may be appropriate to make sure there are no
mistakes/bugs in fontconfig's recent conversion to pthreads. At the
same time, we'll continue to look into solutions for poppler/xpdf.
Best wishes,
Mike
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