Re: intent to do a poppler transition

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

Frank Küster wrote:
> It's completely inacceptable for pdftex to acquire a dependency on gtk
> or qt.  If using plain libpoppler turns out to be impossible, we'd

Nearly 1000 packages in sid depend on glib, it's not that it's a completely
obscure lib causing major problems. Please elaborate why that is "completely
unacceptable".

> rather switch back to using our embedded xpdf copy and have 10 security
> releases during each release cycle.

Great, just unload the work onto someone else!