Summary: | app-text/xpdf: Switch to xpdf-poppler fork? | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Rogério Brito <rbrito> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Printing Team <printing> |
Status: | RESOLVED UPSTREAM | ||
Severity: | enhancement | CC: | bircoph, phmagic, rbrito, reavertm |
Priority: | High | Keywords: | PMASKED |
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | masked for removal 27 Feb 2012 | ||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Rogério Brito
2010-06-10 19:27:59 UTC
I don't see this used in Debian yet (re: http://packages.debian.org/sid/xpdf) but I like the idea, moving to xpdf & poppler maintainers... (In reply to comment #1) > I don't see this used in Debian yet (re: http://packages.debian.org/sid/xpdf) Yes, it is not there, basically because some people objected to it. You can see the discussion at (and posts around it): http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2010/06/msg00047.html On the other hand, people from the security team of Debian have expressed satisfaction with this project: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2010/06/msg00159.html > but I like the idea, moving to xpdf & poppler maintainers... Regardless of this being adopted in Debian, I am willing to work hard on this project and I think that we can leverage on the improvements that are being made to poppler, since the xpdf development itself has mostly stagnated. Thanks. I also like the idea; we already switched all our TeX stuff to (shared) poppler instead of (static) xpdf. However, I can't get my way into github, have you released any tarball yet ? (I mean a tarball, signed & everything, not a .tar.gz generated from a vcs) (In reply to comment #3) > I also like the idea; we already switched all our TeX stuff to (shared) poppler > instead of (static) xpdf. However, I can't get my way into github, have you > released any tarball yet ? (I mean a tarball, signed & everything, not a > .tar.gz generated from a vcs) No, not *yet*, but I may be doing that soon. In fact, I may be doing that sooner if I know that, perhaps, any distribution (say, Gentoo) is going to use it. :-) Regards, Rogério Brito. (In reply to comment #4) > (In reply to comment #3) > > I also like the idea; we already switched all our TeX stuff to (shared) poppler > > instead of (static) xpdf. However, I can't get my way into github, have you > > released any tarball yet ? (I mean a tarball, signed & everything, not a > > .tar.gz generated from a vcs) > > No, not *yet*, but I may be doing that soon. In fact, I may be doing that > sooner if I know that, perhaps, any distribution (say, Gentoo) is going to use > it. :-) Speaking only for myself, I am interested in such a project and could add it to the tree and maintain it. At the beginning, there will be both xpdf and xpdf-poppler in our tree, when everyone will be happy with xpdf-poppler, we can rethink about it and kill the old xpdf. Anyway, what we have at the moment is a homemade xpdf-poppler... Added basic live app-text/xpdf ebuild. So people can help with development of the thingie. Some things for sure needs to be adjusted before releasing some nice tarball :) Cheers Hi Rogério, what's the status here, is there any chance of a release in the near future? Cheers, Andreas Removed from the tree for now. |