Re: RFS: xpdf (updated package)
Hi there.
On Jun 20 2010, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> I would be very appreciative if anyone has the time to review and
> sponsor this package. See new version at:
>
> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xpdf
I just got time for a mini-review.
* Nice that you added credits to me for a patch;
* Would you consider including the latest versin of the zooming patch
that I sent you?
* debian/compat is 5, but you build-depend on debhelper 7.
* the long description of the xpdf *binary* package mentions that it is
only for compatibility and that it can be safely removed. That's not the
case anymore.
* does xpdf *really* provide a postscript-preview virtual package?
* not that it matters much, but xpdf-{common,reader,utils} could be made
arch all instead of arch any.
* minor thing: there are some ugly spaces before commas in some of the
relationship fields.
* minor thing: since we are not shipping a library, there isn't a very
strict requirement of the transitional binary packages be steplocked
with the main binary. Therefore, the binary:Version substitution
variable could be relaxed to source:Version (there won't be a problem
with binNMU's).
If the packages are converted to arch all instead of any, then this
need becomes even lower.
* Your override_dh_auto_build target of debian/rules doesn't seem to
respect the linking time flags.
Could you add something like $(LDFLAGS) to the final compilation?
* does xpdf.postint still needs to have the code for backwards
compatibility with xpdf 2.01-1?
* it would be so darned nice if zxpdf handled:
+ xz compressed files.
+ pdf files with case-insensitive extensions, as, sometimes, .Pdf
files are seen in the wild.
>From the functional side of the package, though, it looks sane.
Regards,
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