On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 08:19:47AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> As I understand it, pdftotext is a new tool available in 5.5 but not 5.0.
AFAIK pdftotext is included in xpdf - it's not part of gs 5.5. The differences
between 5.10 and 5.50 are not that big and I do not want to risk a stable
package just for being up to date.
If anybody here is very interested in it please speak up and we will get
something arranged. Otherwise I will just continue my work on gs 6.0
(it changed quite a bit compared to 5.5) and upload that to unstable
when I am done.
> I think this is a significant and useful addition (for all I know, 5.0
> might not support PDF at all).
It's 5.1 and it supports pdf.
> If that is true, I think it merits inclusion of 5.5 in main for potato, as
> .pdf is a *very* widespread document format.
>
> If I'm mistaken about all this, then perhaps it isn't so urgent.
My impression is that it is not very urgent (I switch between both gs
packages from time to time and do not feel there is anything different).
Thanks
Torsten
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Debian Developer and Quality Assurance Committee Member
