The Debian bug report clearly shows that current unstable still exhibits the bug.
Since Ubuntu is based on unstable, every Ubuntu version, released or in development, still exhibits this bug. As before, the bug is closed as "fixed", but it is not fixed. The first possible fix in an LTS release is in 22.04 LTS, if upstream picks the problem up and really fixes it. But since this report seems to show that it already is fixed, they might be lured into thinking it is fixed already. It is not. Even if we assume that the bug was fixed in 19.10 and then re-appeared, and possibly fixed in some experimental code base, just closing this bug is the surest way to have it re-appear again, because it was never diagnosed and knowingly fixed, but rather happened to not show itself in some random version of the software. This is very frustrating, and one of the reasons many people still think commercial proprietary software is of better quality than free software (as evidenced, e.g., in the IETF mailing list thread[1]). :-( [1] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/tools- discuss/vIR4w4Qgj796wcTkiNtK6ljMxss/ The poppler-using xpdf in 18.04 does not have this issue. The tools from poppler-utils work fine with the PDF documents in question. So is it really an issue in poppler? Or rather in the way evince uses poppler? I am not familiar with either code base, so I have no idea. The GNOME Document Viewer "evince" stands out as the only PDF viewer that actually crashes on those PDFs. Others display the PDFs, with some (e.g., MuPDF and gv) producing warning and/or error messages (but still correctly displaying the document). It also stands out as the default PDF viewer in Ubuntu. It is not a problem of PDF attachments not working in poppler based PDF viewers, because (using, e.g., pdftk) it is possible to take the problematic PDFs, extract the attachment, create a new PDF without attachment, but otherwise the same contents, and then (re-)attach the file extracted in the first step. The result works fine in evince (and does not produce error nor warning messages in MuPDF). I am sorry for venting my frustration. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to poppler in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1885313 Title: evince crashes when opening rfc8798.pdf To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/+bug/1885313/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
