Re: My pending RFSs (xpdf, ushare, protoaculous, gordon, checksec)

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:13:07PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote:
> Hi there, people.
> 
> On Jul 16 2010, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
> > - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xpdf
> > - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable
> >   main contrib non-free
> > - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xpdf/xpdf_3.02-3.dsc
> > 
> > But I only see:
> > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xpdf/xpdf_3.02-8.dsc
> 
> Yeah, Michael decided to increment the revisions and I followed suit in
> the packaging:
> 
>   * http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/xpdf.git
> 
> > It looks very nice.  I have a question.
> > 
> > I do not see security patches on the web in your patches:
> > xpdf-3.02pl1.patch: a patch for a security hole (1050 bytes)
> > xpdf-3.02pl2.patch: a patch for security holes (20843 bytes)
> > xpdf-3.02pl3.patch: a patch for security holes (30727 bytes)
> > xpdf-3.02pl4.patch: a patch for security holes (6982 bytes)
> 
> You may want to read this:
> 
>   * http://github.com/rbrito/xpdf-poppler/blob/master/README.md
>   * http://rb.doesntexist.org/blog/2010/05/27/please-let-me-zoom-my-documents/
>   * http://rb.doesntexist.org/blog/2010/06/10/a-version-of-xpdf-with-the-poppler-backend-available/
> 
> > This is too big a package for me to review now but very good work.
> 
> Not that big... :-) I took care to comment each of the patches in the
> commit list of the xpdf-poppler fork that I am maintaining in github.
> 
> Also, I am including other people that may also be interested in getting
> an updated version of xpdf in Debian.
> 
> While I prefer the version of poppler that I am maintaining I think
> that, for less disruptive changes, Michael's version may be preferrable.

I'll look into this/sponsor this during DebCamp or DebConf.

Cheers,
        Moritz