Moritz Muehlenhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Küster wrote: >>> poppler (#344738), orphaned 4 days ago >>> Reverse Depends: libpoppler-glib-dev libpoppler-dev abiword-plugins >>> libpoppler-qt-dev libkpathsea4 evince libpoppler0c2-qt tetex-bin >>> libpoppler0c2-glib >> >> ... and hopefully some more in the future. There are a couple of >> packages with copies of xpdf code in them (different minor versions, of >> course...), and they have been an annoying source of work every time a >> security issue pops up in xpdf. As we (or rather Martin Pitt) have >> shown with tetex-bin, switching to poppler is quite easy; but for that >> the package should be well maintained. > > These source packages embed xpdf source and should be fixed to use poppler > if possible: > > gpdf > pdftohtml > kdegraphics (kpdf) > koffice > libextractor
AFAIK, poppler was created by the freedesktop people specifically in order to replace xpdf code in Gnome and KDE applications. Therefore I expect that at least kpdf an gpdf, and probably koffice will link against poppler in a new release (and already do in CVS?) > cupsys also embeds xpdf source, but uses xpdf-utils for current versions. Yes, so this is not an issue for Debian currently, but it might be good to urge upstream to do the switch. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
