Bug#1063770: transition: mupdf

[Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org>]

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On 2024-02-12 23:30:58 +0900, Kan-Ru Chen wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-Cc: mupdf@packages.debian.org, pymupdf@packages.debian.org, sioyek@packages.debian.org, ippsample@packages.debian.org
> Control: affects -1 + src:mupdf
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: transition
> 
> Hi Release Team,
> 
> This is a somewhat unusual transition request. The libmupdf-dev package
> used to only ship static library archives due to upstream preference.
> Recently upstream started to provide makefiles for building shared library
> so I think it's time to ship shared library in Debian.
> 
> I've uploaded the new version to experimental (binary package libmupdf23.10)
> and tried to build the affected reverse build-deps (Cc'ed).
> 
> ippsample - doesn't seem to use mupdf at all
> pymupdf - requires some changes. Likely also needs to update to new upstream version.
> sioyek - requires some changes to drop extra linker flags.

Have bugs been filed for these issues?

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher