Re: GNOME packages sarge status
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 04:04:27PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl> writes:
> > On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 11:29:53PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> >> + poppler 0.1.2-1 -> 0.3.0-2
> >> not sure about this one: it's still under heavy development, and
> >> isn't used by any other package
> >
> > An unused library package with no reverse dependencies. I suggest
> > removing it from sarge, it's of too minor use there.
>
> Can we assume that no user uses this library?
No, but it's certainly still in big flux, being very new, so unlikely to
be of use in a stable release if it's not supporting any actual program
in sarge. The project exists only since 27 feb 2005 at all, and being a
fork of xpdf rending code, any security bug in xpdf is likely also going
to apply to poppler . I for one am wondering whether all of the most
recent xpdf issues are appliceable to plopper and fixed.
People going to support/compile programs for sarge are likely going to
need more than just poppler anyway, or even just a new version of it.
--Jeroen
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