On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 06:22:34PM -0700, Matt Taggart wrote: > I am working on packaging some software that uses pdftotext and didn't > realize until today that there were two, one in xpdf-utils (which I was > used to using) and one in poppler-utils (that was new to me). I was > concerned that they might have different sets of flags so I started poking > around to see if I could figure out what the difference was, but couldn't > find much. Nothing listed in their descriptions or /usr/share/doc/* stuff. > The only hint I found was that xpdf-utils conflicts/replaces/provides > poppler-utils, but after reading this bug it appears maybe I shouldn't read > too much into that? > > Could you write a paragraph or two explaining how the two projects relate > and if I can expect them to be reasonable replacements for each other and > include it in the README.Debian, or put something in the package > description, or something? Ideally this would be in both packages, but at > least in xpdf* since it does the c/r/p. > > I understand the description might be "politics", but at least we could > have some history of their origin/forking/etc so people could decide which > to use on their own.
OK, I'll add something in the next release. Indeed the answer is politics. libpoppler is a fork of the PDF handling code from Xpdf, used in evince etc. The project also provides poppler-utils as clones of the original tools found in xpdf-utils. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
