Bug 545508 – app-text/qpdfview : USE="fitz" app-text/mupdf-1.4 dependency required?

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jan Janecek 2015-04-04 13:51:06 UTC]

Why does the fitz backend depend on app-text/mupdf:0/1.4 ?
I tested qpdfview 0.4.14 with mupdf 1.6 and everything seems to work fine.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Ben de Groot (RETIRED) 2015-04-11 08:21:04 UTC]

Franz, can you shed some light on this?

[Comment 2 Franz Trischberger 2015-04-12 06:12:13 UTC]

I had a look at the CHANGES file from mupdf. It usually lists accurately what changed API-wise. There were some API-changes in 1.4, but since then (v1.5, v1.6) there were none listed. So IMHO qpdfview should also build with mupdf:1.6.
However there may be ABI breakage, so forcing a rebuild of qpdfview after a mupdf-bump is needed - which the subslot-dep should handle just fine.

So I personally don't see any issues to allow >=mupdf-1.4 as a dep. But we should then watch for API changes in future mupdf releases (and how/if qpdfview adapts to them).

[Comment 3 Franz Trischberger 2015-04-17 17:03:02 UTC]

mupdf:1.7 is out and there were API changes, again. If you e.g. look at zathura-pdf-mupdf they now added a "<mupdf:1.7" restriction. IMHO that should work for qpdfview, too.

[Comment 4 Franz Trischberger 2015-04-25 11:52:31 UTC]

Rev 1884 (from 12. April) introduced support for mupdf:1.7. It is then a hard requirement. So the next qpdfview-release will have to depend on mupdf:1.7.

[Comment 5 Davide Pesavento (RETIRED) 2015-04-25 19:38:55 UTC]

(In reply to Franz Fellner from comment #4)
> So the next qpdfview-release will have to depend on
> mupdf:1.7.

IIUC, >=app-text/mupdf-1.7:= makes more sense

[Comment 6 Franz Trischberger 2015-06-16 10:02:38 UTC]

Just wanted to point out that the version bump to qpdfview-0.4.14 still depends on >=mupdf-1.4. Should be 1.7 now.

[Comment 7 Ben de Groot (RETIRED) 2015-06-16 10:21:15 UTC]

Fixed in qpdfview-0.4.15.ebuild now. I have removed 0.4.14.