Re: intent to do a poppler transition

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org> wrote:

> Gnome Team will take care of evince, and I am Ccing maintainers of
> affected packages (although I think that binary NMU can fix that?).

Hm, while trying to check tetex-bin:

# apt-get -t experimental install libpoppler1 libpoppler-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libpoppler1: Depends: poppler-data but it is not installable
E: Broken packages
# apt-cache policy poppler-data
poppler-data:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: (none)
  Version table:

> The reason for this is that poppler 0.4.x is very buggy and it will not
> be supported from upstream.  Also number of affected packages in not
> very high.

I generally support this move.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)