Re: poppler-utils and pdftohtml

[Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>]

* Frederic Peters (fpeters@debian.org) [061201 14:42]:
> Background:
> 
>   We agreed, Ondrej (poppler-utils) and I (pdftohtml), to obsolete
>   pdftohtml since poppler-utils now provide a binary of that name and
>   security issues will be best dealt with poppler than another copy of
>   xpdf code.
> 
>  * trying to update pdftohtml from 0.36-13 to 0.36-14 (candidate
>     is 58 days old)
>  * Updating pdftohtml makes 1 non-depending packages uninstallable
>    on i386: pdftohtml 
> 
>  -- http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=pdftohtml
> 
> To insure smooth upgrade, pdftohtml has been made a transitional
> package, depending on poppler-utils (>= 0.4.5-1).

Well, pdftohtml depends on poppler-utils, which however conflicts even
with the current version of pdftohtml - hence, pdftohtml gets
uninstallable. What needs to happen is that poppler-utils only conflicts
with non-transitional versions of pdftohtml.

And: Thank you for actively reducing the amount of work for the security
team.



Cheers,
Andi
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