Re: xpdf removed from testing? - Back again?

2014-01-16 Thread Svante Signell
On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 22:09 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 17:47 +, Ian Jackson wrote: Svante Signell writes (Re: xpdf removed from testing?): On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 16:59 +, Neil Williams wrote: That's 7 entirely sufficient reasons and one problem

Re: xpdf removed from testing?

2014-01-16 Thread Simon McVittie
On 15/01/14 21:09, Svante Signell wrote: I cleaned out the duplicated code between xpdf and poppler (which is a continuation of xpdf becoming a PDF rendering library). Some more cleaning is still needed, to actually remove all irrelevant code (and update relevant code). Is it possible to

Re: xpdf removed from testing?

2014-01-15 Thread Svante Signell
On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 17:47 +, Ian Jackson wrote: Svante Signell writes (Re: xpdf removed from testing?): On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 16:59 +, Neil Williams wrote: That's 7 entirely sufficient reasons and one problem that arguably makes fixing the other seven harder. So 7.5 reasons

Re: xpdf removed from testing?

2014-01-13 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 13, Svante Signell svante.sign...@gmail.com wrote: Is it true that xpdf is about to disappear. I like that program very much. For which reasons, in addition to the 7 RC bugs, a dead upstream? Do you need more reasons? Maybe this question should go to debian-release instead? Maybe you

Re: xpdf removed from testing?

2014-01-13 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 01/13/2014 05:38 PM, Svante Signell wrote: Is it true that xpdf is about to disappear. I like that program very much. For which reasons, in addition to the 7 RC bugs, a dead upstream? The 7 RC bugs are the exact reason: http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xpdf/news/20131208T163914Z.html This

Re: xpdf removed from testing?

2014-01-13 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 17:38:21 +0100 Svante Signell svante.sign...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is it true that xpdf is about to disappear. No, it will be removed from testing. That means that new users won't have it available but anyone who already has it installed is welcome to it, with all it's

Re: xpdf removed from testing?

2014-01-13 Thread Svante Signell
On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 16:59 +, Neil Williams wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 17:38:21 +0100 Svante Signell svante.sign...@gmail.com wrote: I like that program very much. For which reasons, in addition to the 7 RC bugs, a dead upstream? That's 7 entirely sufficient reasons and one

Re: xpdf removed from testing?

2014-01-13 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Svante, On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 06:19:21PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 16:59 +, Neil Williams wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 17:38:21 +0100 Svante Signell svante.sign...@gmail.com wrote: I like that program very much. For which reasons, in addition to the 7

Re: xpdf removed from testing?

2014-01-13 Thread Ian Jackson
Svante Signell writes (Re: xpdf removed from testing?): On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 16:59 +, Neil Williams wrote: That's 7 entirely sufficient reasons and one problem that arguably makes fixing the other seven harder. So 7.5 reasons to remove it from testing. OK; OK, I understand completely

Re: xpdf removed from testing?

2014-01-13 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Svante Signell contributed: Is it true that xpdf is about to disappear. I like that program very much. I like it too but it's save dialog is pretty terrible. Have you checked out mupdf. No save but similar otherwise. p.s. qpdfview is shaping up and remembers tabs too.

Re: xpdf removed from testing?

2014-01-13 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 18:19:21 +0100 Svante Signell svante.sign...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 16:59 +, Neil Williams wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 17:38:21 +0100 Svante Signell svante.sign...@gmail.com wrote: I like that program very much. For which reasons, in addition to

Re: xpdf removed from testing?

2014-01-13 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Svante Signell svante.sign...@gmail.com, 2014-01-13, 17:38: Is it true that xpdf is about to disappear. I like that program very much. For which reasons, in addition to the 7 RC bugs, For very small values of 7. :-) a dead upstream? The last xpdf release was in 2011, the previous one in

Re: xpdf removed from testing?

2014-01-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Svante Signell svante.sign...@gmail.com writes: OK; OK, I understand completely. As a follow-up: according to popcon there are about 10 000 installations of that package. Any interest/chance that patches will help re-introduce this package, or is it just a waste of effort? What is the opinion

Re: xpdf removed from testing?

2014-01-13 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 19:25 +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: * Svante Signell svante.sign...@gmail.com, 2014-01-13, 17:38: Is it true that xpdf is about to disappear. I like that program very much. For which reasons, in addition to the 7 RC bugs, For very small values of 7. :-) There are seven,

Re: xpdf removed from testing?

2014-01-13 Thread Norbert Preining
Is it true that xpdf is about to disappear. I like that program very much. For which reasons, in addition to the 7 RC bugs, a dead upstream? Do you need more reasons? Actually *1* RC bug that was introduced by replacing the proper xpdf code with linking to poppler - a moving target that

Re: xpdf removed from testing?

2014-01-13 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 14 janvier 2014 à 07:16 +0900, Norbert Preining a écrit : Yes, xpdf works very well. THose people having problem should simple compile a version from upstream without the pesty Debian changes to link against poppler, and it will work again. And as a bonus, the PDF exploits will work