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. Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- .''`. Philipp Kern Debian Developer : :' : http://philkern.de Debian Release Assistant `. `' xmpp:phil@0x539.de `- finger pkern/key@db.debian.org
diff -u xpdf-3.01/debian/changelog xpdf-3.01/debian/changelog
--- xpdf-3.01/debian/changelog
+++ xpdf-3.01/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+xpdf (3.01-9.1+etch5) stable; urgency=low
+
+ * Remove the strictly versionned dependency on xpdf-utils. Without
+ this the transition from pdftohtml to poppler-utils removes
+ xpdf.
+
+ -- Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:04:07 +0200
+
xpdf (3.01-9.1+etch4) stable-security; urgency=low
* Non-maintainer upload by the Security Team.
diff -u xpdf-3.01/debian/control xpdf-3.01/debian/control
--- xpdf-3.01/debian/control
+++ xpdf-3.01/debian/control
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
Package: xpdf
Architecture: all
-Depends: xpdf-reader (= ${Source-Version}), xpdf-utils (= ${Source-Version}), xpdf-common (= ${Source-Version})
+Depends: xpdf-reader (= ${Source-Version}), xpdf-utils, xpdf-common (= ${Source-Version})
Conflicts: xpdf-i (<= 0.90-8)
Replaces: xpdf-i (<= 0.90-8)
Description: Portable Document Format (PDF) suite
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