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Re: xpdf code security, removal of pdftohtml



On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 12:39:09AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 05:08:17PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 01:19:12PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 05:40:13PM +0100, Frederic Peters wrote:
> > > > I am the maintainer of pdftohtml, it embeds code from xpdf, and can be
> > > > replaced by pdftohtml from poppler-utils; this has been the case in sid
> > > > for months (package got removed from sid/lenny in June) and nobody
> > > > complained about compatibility problems using the new poppler code.
> > > You uploaded pdftohtml to p-u and I accepted it very recently.  Sadly it
> > > causes xpdf to be removed from systems, because it has a strictly
> > > versionned dependency on xpdf-utils.  That package is provided by
> > > poppler-utils, but the version numbers do not match up.
> > > 
> > > So it would be appreciated if you could upload an xpdf version with that
> > > dependency relaxed, or even converted to poppler-utils.
> > I did prepare an upload.  See the attached debdiff for details.
> Why are you hacking xpdf to fix a relationship problem between
> pdftohtml and poppler-utils? Neither of them are xpdf-utils.

poppler-utils provides and replaces xpdf-utils.

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern
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