Bug#670040: pax do not work at all
Hi Norbert,
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 08:05:32AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> we got a bug report in Debian that pax does not work, and the
> reason is that pdfbox is much newer in Debian, namely 1.6.0 from
> Apache:
>
> On So, 22 Apr 2012, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
> > http://ftp3.gwdg.de/pub/ctan/macros/latex/contrib/pax/README (I'm
>
> Interesting ... pdfbox in Debian is the one from apache
> http://pdfbox.apache.org/index.html
> while pax uses the one from
> pdfbox.org
> which is an empty wordpress, and one download. I don't know what the
> history of that is, maybe pdfbox was later taken over into apache
> and further developped.
>
> I am quite sure that the pdfbox from pdfbox.org will not be
> packaged in Debian.
>
> Heiko, do you see any problem in porting your pax to the recent
> pdfbox by apache?
pax works with pdfbox 0.7.2 or 0.7.3.
The download page for pdfbox
http://pdfbox.apache.org/download.html
contains a section "Download old releases" and a link to
the old sourceforge page:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=78314
There both 0.7.2 or 0.7.3 can be downloaded.
Currently I don't have time to update pax to the new pdfbox.
TL freeze is nearing and my bundle update is more important to me.
At least the update of README is on the way to CTAN.
Yours sincerely
Heiko Oberdiek
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