Re: New poppler upstream with soname changes
On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 11:10:12 +0200 Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Hi,
>
> poppler upstreams have released a new 0.14 version which features yet
> another transition, for both libpoppler and libpoppler-glib.
>
> Given that the versions of KDE and GNOME we intend to ship in squeeze
> have been better tested with 0.12, and the amount of work involved (with
> presumably a handful of source changes + a large transition), the
> conservative option is to simply not do anything.
>
> This has implications, though; long-term maintenance of poppler is hard
> for the security team, so the most recent version we have at the time of
> the release, the longest time it can be maintained.
>
> Thoughts?
The difficulty of supporting poppler comes not from the version
released, but instead the number of embedding packages. The latter has
been mostly addressed (with koffice and kdegraphics recently linking to
the system version). I've also updated xpdf to use poppler as well
(which currently needs a sponsor [0] and for poppler-utils to not
conflict with the new xpdf-utils that I pushed to the freedesktop svn).
That only leaves pdfedit and ipe as known embedders (there may be
unknowns out there).
So, I think releasing with 0.12 makes the most sense.
Best wishes,
Mike
[0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2010/06/msg00030.html
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