To test newer versions of evince I have installed evince via the snap store.
After installation via snap, the snap version can be started using its different program icon (I hope you can understand what I mean, I clicked the "9 dots" icon in the bottom of the task bar on the left, typed "evince", found two versions using different icons, and verified the version via "Show Details"). * 3.34.2+git4.91cbe4fe (from 2020-06-01) crashes with all the RFC PDF documents of this bug and bug #1849888 (which does cast some doubt about that bug being fixed in evince version 3.34.1-1). * 3.36.6+git2.ce03847a (from 2020-06-27) crashes as well. * 3.37.2+git65.582b220e (from 2020-06-30) does not start, so result for the problematic RFC PDFs. So at least _this_ bug is relevant to more recent versions of evince than the 18.04 LTS default. For the default latest/stable channel the snap package shows the following information: $ sudo snap info evince name: evince summary: Document viewer for popular document formats publisher: Ken VanDine store-url: https://snapcraft.io/evince contact: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bugs?field.tag=snap license: unset description: | This is a document viewer for the GNOME desktop. It supports the following document formats: PDF, PS, EPS, XPS, DjVu, TIFF, DVI (with SyncTeX), and Comic Books archives (CBR, CBT, CBZ, CB7). commands: - evince - evince.evince-previewer - evince.evince-thumbnailer snap-id: EDFg87ESUg9sAIlm0Vm5Wmr0LjiEonSm tracking: latest/stable refresh-date: today at 13:17 CEST channels: latest/stable: 3.34.2+git4.91cbe4fe 2020-06-01 (434) 8MB - latest/candidate: 3.36.6+git2.ce03847a 2020-06-27 (469) 8MB - latest/beta: ↑ latest/edge: 3.37.2+git65.582b220e 2020-06-30 (474) 8MB - installed: 3.34.2+git4.91cbe4fe (434) 8MB - ** Tags added: bionic snap -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to evince in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1885313 Title: evince crashes when opening rfc8798.pdf Status in evince package in Ubuntu: New Status in evince package in Debian: New Bug description: evince reproducabely crashes when opening the file rfc8798.pdf from https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8798.pdf: $ evince --version GNOME Document Viewer 3.28.4 $ evince rfc8798.pdf Segmentation fault (core dumped) $ cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=18.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=bionic DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS" Required information: 1) Ubuntu release info: $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS Release: 18.04 2) Package version info: $ apt-cache policy evince evince: Installed: 3.28.4-0ubuntu1.2 Candidate: 3.28.4-0ubuntu1.2 Version table: *** 3.28.4-0ubuntu1.2 500 500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 Packages 500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3.28.2-1 500 500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages 3) Expected outcome: I expected evince to successfully open the PDF, allowing me to read the document. 4) Observed behavior: The default PDF reader of Ubuntu, evince, crashed (reporting a "segmentation fault". To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/1885313/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
