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Bug#316546: tetex-bin: Please use libpoppler instead of a copy of xpdf code



tag 316546 patch
thanks

Hi Frank!

After really getting annoyed by the current xpdf security update, I
finally gave this a shot. Surprisingly, building tetex-bin against
poppler was much easier than I thought. The code changes are minimal,
most of the effort is required to convince tetex-bin's build system to
ignore the internal xpdf copy.

I put the debdiff at

  http://patches.ubuntu.com/patches/tetex-bin.poppler.diff

It is a bit messy since it removes all of the existing xpdf patches
(so it might not apply cleanly since you might have slightly different
patches), but it should be easy enough to adapt it.

So, now the only thing left to do is to build xpdf-reader against
poppler. :)

Thanks,

Martin

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