Bug#740375: transition: poppler 0.24

[Pino Toscano <pino@debian.org>]

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: transition

Hi,

I would like to ask a slot for a Poppler 0.24.x transition.
I know a 0.22 transition has been done recently, but the future 0.26
will not be released at least for another month and it breaks few
sources using the private libpoppler, so I would like to introduce 0.24
in Debian soon.
Currently there is Poppler 0.24.x in experimental already.

This transition impacts the existing poppler libraries in the following ways:
- libpoppler37 → libpoppler44

Below it is a list of sources which are touched by the transition, and their
situation, sorted by solutions:

Sources that compile fine, and can be binNMU'ed:

  calligra
  cups-filters
  gambas3
  gdal
  gdcm
  gnome-commander
  inkscape 
  pdf2djvu
  pdftoipe
  popplerkit.framework
  texlive-bin

Sources that currently FTBFS:

* xpdf
    The version currently in unstable does not support Poppler 0.24,
    while the version in experimental does (#736443).

* libreoffice
    LO 4.1 does not support Poppler 0.24 (needs an upstream commit [1]),
    while LO 4.2 (currently in experimental) does. Thus it is matter of
    either backporting that commit, or pushing LO 4.2 in unstable.

Other cases:

* derivations
    This source builds a libpoppler-based utility application which is
    only used during the build to generate other data, and no trace of
    that application are left in the resulting arch:all package.

I grouped all the bugs mentioned above (even the solved ones) with the
following usertag:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=pino@debian.org;tag=poppler-0.24

A ben tracker for poppler would have:
is_affected = .build-depends ~ "libpoppler-private-dev";
is_good = .depends ~ "libpoppler44";
is_bad = .depends ~ "libpoppler37";

[1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=828ebc542b980fce90e70459eb2d13e6eeecc355

Thanks,
-- 
Pino