Re: RFS: pdfmerge

[Philipp Gortan <gortan@chello.at>]

Hi Thomas, hi mentors,

Thomas Viehmann wrote:
> why does it need autotools for a trivial perl script?
I wasn't aware that the autotools are _not_ the tools of choice for 
platform-independent programs :-) To me, it's the easiest way to help 
dh_make building the rules...

>   what is the difference?
You're right that there are different ways to achieve the goal. Didn't 
knew that was a bad idea...

>   On a second set of documents, both barfed on the input pdf...
Sure, pdfmerge can't do what ghostscript can't do...

> - The script randomly overwrites files in the CWD.
Do you mean merged.ps? Yes, that should go into /tmp, imho, I'll hand it 
on to upstream...

> I will not comment on packaging issues.
Sorry you don't like it.

cu, philipp

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