Hi, would you consider packaging the new version yourself and requesting a sponsor to upload it?
Best Il giorno sab 9 mag 2026 alle ore 12:18 Francesco Pretto <[email protected]> ha scritto: > > Hello debian-devel, > > This is my first post in this mailing list. I'm the maintainer of the > upstream PoDoFo library[1], and I'm here to discuss the situation of > the podofo library in Debian. The libpodofo package[2] in Debian hasn't > seen a major update since May 2022. Since then, three major upstream > updates have been released: 0.10 in 2023, 1.0 in 2025 and 1.1 in 2026. > 0.10.x and 1.0.x received updates until May 1st 2026 and are now > deprecated, with 1.1.x selected as the new LTS series. > > We were in contact with the Debian/Ubuntu maintainer for a period and > I hoped a newer release of PoDoFo in Debian was just a matter of time. > Unfortunately, this hasn't happened. Because of the enduring > situation, I want to make a clear statement about the status about the > version of the PoDoFo distributed now in Debian: > > - The 0.9.x series has not received an update since 0.9.8 and has > been effectively deprecated. No previous upstream maintainer stepped > in to support it so it's also unmaintained; > - The PoDoFo tools have been indefinitely declared[3] unsupported and > unmaintained. > > I leave the decision on how to proceed to the Debian developers. If a > new Debian maintainer steps in to create 1.1 packages, I'd like to add > a couple of notes to help with the integration: > > - As stated the new license is LGPL2+ or MPL 2.0 for the source code. > However, with the default enabled "Adobe Font Development Kit for > OpenType" integration (Apache2 licensed) the library is not compatible > with GPL2-only software as a whole. The integration allows for Type1 > font subsetting so I generally don't recommend disabling it; > - I'm establishing a "no package patches" policy in PoDoFo, meaning > that all reasonable features needed by packagers should be available > by default in PoDoFo upstream. If you need a feature/fix, just ask for it; > - The deprecated PoDoFo tools still compile, but are opt-in enabled. > At some point they may be reinstated, but not in the short term. > > Feel free to ask if you need any further information. > > Best, > Francesco > > [1] https://github.com/podofo/podofo > [2] https://packages.debian.org/source/stable/libpodofo > [3] https://github.com/podofo/podofo#podofo-tools > -- Salvo Tomaselli I difensori della morale tradizionale sono raramente persone di cuore. Si è tentati di pensare che essi si servano della morale come di legittimo sfogo al loro desiderio di fare del male agli altri. -- Bertrand Russell, Perché non sono cristiano. 1957 http://ltworf.github.io/
