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Bug#856652: RFS: xpdf/3.0.4.real-4



Dear Svante,

On Sat, Mar 04, 2017 at 08:19:43PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> Maybe I don't understand. The version of xpdf I'm proposing is no
> longer dependent on poppler. So why are you talking about poppler?
> Which are the security issues of upstream xpdf? I'd really like to
> know, and if possible forward these problems to upstream:Glyph & Cog,
> LLC. Additionally, which are the poppler-based security issues? 

I'm not referring to currently known security issues.  I'm referring to
issues that are yet to be discovered.

> See above. Which version of xpdf are you referring to, the poppler-
> based one, or the upstream one?
> 
> And BTW: poppler upstream seems to be freedesktop.org, i.e. gnome. Who
> can trust gnome nowadays, especially people preferring systemd-free
> software?

I trust GNOME to quickly find and repair security issues in libpoppler.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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