Re: Bug#252104: xpdf: Please provide a -dev package
On 22.08.05 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
> Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
Hi,
> > It does not sound very encouraging. poppler provides a static
> > libxpdf.a too. Perhaps we could try to adapt teTeX to use that
> > lib. Yes this is a lot of work and we have to reapply it after
> > every teTeX release as I don't believe it will be accepted in
> > upstream. I had only a short look at the build system and there
> > are more than 2 screws to turn.
>
> I don't think switching from a static build with our own code to a
> static build with their code would help us so much.
>
Not, that. The only advantage is, that we don't have to dig through
the code ourself, but just bump up the BD's and reupload.
> It's certainly better, but I think in the long run we need a
> libxpdf, or libpoppler useable for PDF-parsing software like
> pdfTeX.
>
..and upstream must be willing to use it. OK, lets hope
Hamish Moffatt will provide libxpdf.so at any time, having less
features then poppler...
H.
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