On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 12:13:02AM +0200, Markus Koschany wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently working on updating pdfsam. As usual there are tons of new > dependencies. I believe I can manage to package them but at the moment > I'm stuck at SAMBox and its build-dependency fontbox. > > SAMBox is a fork of PDFBox' 2.x branch. It requires fontbox 2.0.6 which > is part of the PDFBox package. Our package apparently tracks the older > 1.8 branch. Is there a good reason not to upgrade to 2.x or is it just > the usual nobody has found the time yet? The update may possibly break > jabref, fop and tika although the latter is RC buggy anyway. I get only > weird output from the "build-rdeps" command, so there might be even more > reverse-dependencies. > > Alternatively I could also just package fontbox. > > Thoughts? Hello Markus, I think it's just that no one had gotten around to updating pdfbox. I see these as the reverse build dependencies: $ reverse-depends -b libpdfbox-java Reverse-Build-Depends-Indep =========================== * jabref * tika And I'm happy to help with any porting needed for jabref and/or tika. Maybe you start with an upload of the updated libpdfbox-java to experimental? Cheers, tony
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