libpoppler patch in TeXLive in Ubuntu (was: TeXLive 2007 & ConTeXt on etch?)

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

(trimmed Cc, added Martin Pitt)

Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@mrao.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

>> > For my Ubuntu system, I've been taking your src packages, removing the
>> > 30_libpoppler patch line from the patches/series file, and then
>
> My change has good and bad points, which I just wanted to list in case
> people have other ideas or fixes.
>
> The advantage:
>
> * It's what the Ubuntu Gutsy (7.10) alpha-test packages do (well, they
>   remove most of the lines including the libpoppler one).  

Now that is surprising.  It was Martin Pitt who originally wrote the
libpoppler patch for Ubuntu, we have adopted it and meanwhile also SuSE
does something similar.  Why was it dropped for Ubuntu?

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