On Sun, 6 Jun 2010 21:13:11 +0900 Norbert Preining wrote: > On So, 06 Jun 2010, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > The problem is that interfaces used by software like texlive, cups, > > inkscape or pdf2djvu are considered private by poppler developers[2]. > [...] > > [2] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7054 > > So, that means for me that: > - I will stop compiling TeX Live including surrounding programs with > poppler but use the built in xpdf library > - security team will have loads of pain to support, but I cannot > care for that > - I will actively try to *REMOVE* support for poppler in upstream > TeX Live and surrounding binaries, as it is anyway useless > > If this is the way poppler is going ... so it be.
Could we instead try to collaborate between xpdf and texlive? I only had to apply four small few-line patches to get xpdf with poppler working, which isn't that overburdensome. I can do this for future breakages, and hand over the patches; that way you don't have to do too much work. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100606123935.70fe3cee.michael.s.gilb...@gmail.com
