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Re: Processing of luatex_0.43.0-1_amd64.changes



On Mo, 12 Okt 2009, أحمد المحمودي wrote:
> Since luatex is uploaded to experimental I think the libpoppler patches 
> in bug #548878 should be used, in order for luatex to sucessfully get 
> built (since experimental has libpoppler 0.12).
> 
> I just checked the build log on PTS [1], and amazingly luatex did build 
> successfully, the reason is that actually libpoppler 0.10.6 was pulled 
> during build rather that libpoppler 0.12, I don't understand the reason 
> though.

experimental is NOT used for building not even if building experimental
packages, or better, not by default.

That is what I remember ;-)

The reason is that this way packages can still be used/installed in
sid if it not actually needs something from experimental.

SO I would leave it like it is for now.


Best wishes

Norbert

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