Klemens Nanni: > > Should xpdf 3 be kept around? > > Compared to mupdf, though, xpdf 3 has this nice chapter view and is > great for navigating specifications and such.
FWIW, FreeBSD has kept an xpdf3 port around. I also use xpdf3 as my primary PDF viewer/printer and I'm not happy with the situation. > I wouldn't mind keeping a copy of old xpdf if it benefits users and > doesn't turn into an unmaintained port which will eventually lack > critical fixes or so. Unfortunately that is already the case as upstream has moved on to the Qt version. Back in late 2021, there was a kerfuffle about an Apple security vulnerability in some crufty JBIG2 code. Security analyses at the time mentioned that the vulnerable code had come from xpdf, but it took about a year for a fix to trickle back to xpdf3. Although, it had taken like half a year for a new xpdf4 release, too. (I remember that I looked for an xpdf fix already when the Apple thing was in the news but couldn't find one.) -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
