Re: xpdf removed from testing? -> Back again?
On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 22:09 +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 17:47 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Svante Signell writes ("Re: xpdf removed from testing?"):
> > > On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 16:59 +0000, Neil Williams wrote:
> > > > That's 7 entirely sufficient reasons and one problem that arguably makes
> > > > fixing the other seven harder. So 7.5 reasons to remove it from testing.
> > >
> > > OK; OK, I understand completely. As a follow-up: according to popcon
> > > there are about 10 000 installations of that package. Any
> > > interest/chance that patches will help re-introduce this package, or is
> > > it just a waste of effort? What is the opinion of the maintainers?
> >
> > If the existing maintainer doesn't have the effort to stop the package
> > being removed from testing then clearly they need help.
>
> Noted, action taken!
>
> > If you provide patches, with a view to xpdf staying in the archive,
> > you should probably be prepared for the maintainer to "offer" you the
> > package :-).
>
> I might be interested to continue working on this package, as a start
> with the maintainers blessing, see below.
>
> > I would love to help but my I'm out of the special waterproof tuits
> > required for swamp-draining. Good luck.
> Thanks!
>
> Yay, xpdf builds again (and prints) :-)
>
> I cleaned out the duplicated code between xpdf and poppler (which is a
> continuation of xpdf becoming a PDF rendering library). Some more
> cleaning is still needed, to actually remove all irrelevant code (and
> update relevant code). Is it possible to create a new code base from my
> changes and the many patches?
>
> The patched version of xpdf has been tested with both libpoppler19
> (0.18.4-10) and libpoppler37 (0.22.5-3). libfontconfig version is
> 2.11.0-2.
Additionally, the build system needs an upgrade to use auto{,re}conf,
standards version 3.9.5, etc. I'm willing to do that too. Should I send
a mega-patch against 3.0.3-11 in a bug report or is there a better
way?
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