Re: Bug#856652: RFS: xpdf/3.0.4.real-4
On Tue, 2017-03-07 at 06:49 -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2017-03-04 at 14:19, Svante Signell wrote:
...
> > Maybe I don't understand. The version of xpdf I'm proposing is no
> > longer dependent on poppler. So why are you talking about poppler?
>
> Because other packages do still depend on poppler, so we can't drop
> poppler from the repositories, which means that introducing the code
> back into the xpdf package itself will mean we have two (divergent)
> copies of that code - with all the problems that implies.
Sorry, I still don't get it:
- Which packages still depend on poppler, unless via xpdf? The ones directly
dependant on poppler are not affected.
- Which repositories containing poppler code are you talking about?
- Which code has to be brought back to the xpdf package, causing problems?
Isn't it enough to bump the upstream version and go on from there, as Adam
suggested?
- I did a search for reverse dependencies for xpdf (there are no build-rdeps)
apt-cache rdepends xpdf
xpdf-dbgsym : obvious
libfontconfig1 : Breaks: xpdf (<= 3.03-11)
valentina : Depends: ..., xpdf, ...
libfontconfig1 : see above
|octave-doc : Suggests: octave, xpdf | pdf-viewer
|jabref : Suggests: gv | postscript-viewer, xpdf | pdf-viewer
mozplugger : Suggests: ... xpdf, ...
|xfig-doc : Suggests: iceweasel | www-browser, xfig, xpdf | pdf-viewer
|xfe : Suggests: rpm, xpdf | evince, ...
wiipdf : Depends: ..., xpdf, ...
|vim-latexsuite: Suggests: xpdf | pdf-viewer, ...
|urweb-doc : Recommends: xpdf | pdf-viewer
python-scapy : Suggests: ..., xpdf, ...
|ruby-tioga : Suggests: ..., xpdf, ...
|python-tables-doc: Suggests: xpdf | pdf-viewer, www-browser
|page-crunch : Depends: ..., xpdf-utils, ... Recommends: ..., xpdf, ...
|octave-doc : see above
|muttprint-manual: Depends: ..., xpdf, ...
mozplugger : see above
mlpost : Recommends: ..., xpdf
libmlpost-ocaml-dev: Suggests:, ..., xpdf, ...
|mc : Suggests: ..., xpdf, ...
|jabref : Suggests: ..., xpdf, ...
|libinventor1 : Recommends: ..., xpdf | pdf-viewer
gworkspace-apps-wrappers: Suggests: ..., xpdf, ...
|gprolog-doc : Recommends: xpdf | pdf-viewer, ...
|auctex : Recommends: ..., xpdf | evince | evince-gtk | okular
eficas : Depends: ..., xpdf, ...
As you can see there are only four packages depending on xpdf. The rest are
merely Recommends and Suggests.
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