Bug 177473 – kde-base/kpdf-3.x does *not* depend on poppler

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Matija "hook" Šuklje 2007-05-07 13:40:55 UTC]

According to upstream KDE bugzilla, KPDF does not use poppler anymore.
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107793#c16

Furthermore using poppler seems to be the cause for KPDF to experience major memory leaks - big enough to make a system unresponsive (which also happens to me).

Solution:
- removing poppler as dependancy of KPDF

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-05-07 14:35:21 UTC]

Kindly review http://bugs.gentoo.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html#bug_severity

[Comment 2 Matija "hook" Šuklje 2007-05-07 14:42:36 UTC]

I did. And thought that memory leaks that are big enough to make a system unresponsive to the extent that it isn't able to refresh htop in half an hour, qualifies as "major".

I'm really sorry if I misunderstood the term "major memory leak", it was not my intention to draw attention to this bug against Gentoo's bug policy.

[Comment 3 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2007-05-09 12:07:06 UTC]

KPDf never used Poppler. The patch stemmed from Ubuntum, but had too many issues, so last but  not least it has been removed, so the latest 3.5.5 and 3.5.6 revisions don't have the patch applied. Diego missed to remove the dependencies, though. Your memory leak problem will likely be bug 164248, otherwise it's a bug in KPDF.

[Comment 4 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2007-05-09 12:19:06 UTC]

*sigh*

[Comment 5 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2007-05-09 12:19:37 UTC]

uh, wrong bug, still need to fix the dependencies...

[Comment 6 Matija "hook" Šuklje 2007-05-09 12:32:45 UTC]

Thanks for the explanation.
And, yes, as far as I can see from today's portage sync, the dependancy is still in both 3.5.5-* and 3.5.6.

[Comment 7 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2007-05-15 21:15:26 UTC]

Apparently, the meta info plugin uses poppler, even if KPDF doesn't.