Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal * Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-21 23:49]: > I think having a security hole for more than a year is a reason to remove > gpdf. > > evince seems to be a replacement, gpdf is deprecated.
* Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, on Sat, 22 Jul 2006: > It should imho get orphaned first. BCCing the MIA people - what's up > there anyway? Hasn't mechanix been inactive for ages? On Sat, Aug 12, 2006, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > Hi, > I noticed that gpdf has been orphaned as current Gnome has switched > to evince as the PDF viewer. The problem is that gpdf still embeds > a complete copy of the xpdf code base. xpdf has a poor security > history and I expect more issues to pop up during the 30 months of > Etch security support. Please port gpdf to poppler or remove it from > the archive. The first option is straight-forward, as poppler is > based on xpdf as well. (Porting pdftohtml to poppler took me only > half an hour). However, I assume that removing it entirely might > be the better option, as evince is now the standard PDF viewer. Now that gpdf has been orphaned, I request its removal. -- adn Mohammed Adnène Trojette -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
