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On Sun, 19 May 2019 20:43:29 -0400 Jay Berkenbilt <qjb@debian.org> wrote:
> The changes between qpdf 8.4.0 and 8.4.2 are bug fixes, but I am
> asking for consideration because this update includes fixes to a
> serious performance bug (CLI), a CLI non-compatibility bug, and a
> library fix that could cause data loss in rare cases. These bugs are
> all in the part of the code concerned with splitting and merging
> documents, which is one of the main things people use the qpdf CLI
> for. While these changes are not critical, it would be disappointing
> if the version of qpdf in the next debian stable has these
> already-fixed bugs.
How would a targeted fix look like? I don't think we'll unblock the new
upstream version.
I could extract the changes between 8.4.0 and 8.4.2 and apply them as a patch to 8.4.0, but I don't think I'll do it. It will be confusing if the debian stable version is called 8.4.0 but actually includes most of the fixes from 8.4.2. If it's too late to accept this unblock request, that's fine; we'll just leave things as they are. I plan on releasing a version 9 this summer, and I can just do a backport. If the unblock request is rejected, please feel free to close the request. Thanks!
--Jay