Re: New poppler upstream with soname changes
On 2010-07-03, Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> poppler upstreams have released a new 0.14 version which features yet
> another transition, for both libpoppler and libpoppler-glib.
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> 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.
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> 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.
The diff between 0.12.4 and 0.14 doesn't seem to include major changes,
which would make backporting harder than in other cases, so this is
fine from a can-be-backported-without-getting-mad point of view.
Cheers,
Moritz
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