Bug#910867: inkscape: FTBFS with poppler 0.69.0-1
On 13/10/2018 12:01, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 06:26:18PM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
>>> I intend to update our poppler soon as there are some security fixes
>>> in the newer versions. I'd appreciate if you can take a look at this
>>> and apply any necessary fixes.
>>
>> I'm guessing this upstream commit might help:
>> https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/commit/402c0274420fe39fd2f3393bc7d8d8879d436358
>
> It does. But be aware that the next patches won't be easily
> cherry-pickable, as they did this:
> https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/commit/0ab3449247d9356f57c75893e1ecfa195d43b681
> which conficts a lot with the current code in the released version.
For the next ones do you mean in case poppler breaks the API again for buster?
I.e. can you easily fix this bug?
> As inkscape upstream wrote in https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1789208
>> Seriously poppler should consider having a deprecation period
> It's very annoying also for me to cherry-pick all those patches just for
> poppler, not even two months after the last one...
Absolutely. I'll mention this to upstream.
Cheers,
Emilio
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