On Apr 12, 2020, at 16:19, Ruben Di Battista wrote:
> That is standard practice. I don’t know the real reason for it, didn’t bother
> to investigate,
It's all explained in https://trac.macports.org/ticket/58574#comment:15
Somebody should please take charge of communicating the problem to the
developers of poppler and working with them to implement the solution I
proposed.
> but you just need to follow what is written there: that is deactivating
> Poppler before upgrading it.
>
> `sudo port -f deactivate popper`
> `sudo port upgrade popper`.
>
> I guess it is a safety measure to avoid breaking running programs? I guess.
It's all explained in https://trac.macports.org/ticket/58574#comment:47
