MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for pdfalto [2]: I am proposing to delete this from AUR, for the following reasons: - cannot download sources in clean chroot, - with git installed, linking phase fails after compilation, - there are many severe unresolved upstream issues (build/linking failure, crashes/segfaults with standard PDF features like comments, annotations). [a]
Also: - This was an experimental tool to convert PDF files to ALTO, an obscure format conceived in the early 2000's as an open standard alternative to the then-proprietary formats like PDF, for archival purposes. - But nowadays, PDF is a royalty-free open standard, and its PDF/A derivative is specifically tailored for long-term archival and backward-forward compatibility. Upstream pdfalto is not actively maintained/developed: - last released in April 2021 [b], - a few newer commits from 2021, and one from 2022. [c] Does not seem to be used on AUR: - 1 vote, 0 comments, - no one mentioned the linking failure here. [a]: https://github.com/kermitt2/pdfalto/issues [b]: https://github.com/kermitt2/pdfalto/releases [c]: https://github.com/kermitt2/pdfalto/commits/master [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/pdfalto/
