Hi, Luca and others. (I'm CC'ing some people that have touched xpdf in the recent past).
I've been a bit sick during the beginning of this year and I still have to clear my queue of tasks of the beginning of the year. That was the reason why I had not yet updated things. On Jan 20 2010, Luca Capello wrote: > I am a happy Xpdf user, for various reasons, the first one being is its > small number of dependencies: I am on the same boat, for exactly the same reasons. > ===== > r...@gismo:/# apt-get install xpdf > [...] > The following NEW packages will be installed: > defoma file gsfonts lesstif2 libfreetype6 libice6 libmagic1 And defoma is scheduled to die. :) > Anyway, I am now in a situation where either I move away from Xpdf or I > fix the bugs which are blocking CUPS upgrades on my sid: > > http://bugs.debian.org/557885 > http://bugs.debian.org/558020 Right. I'm not bitten by CUPS, since I use lprng+magicfilter, but, of course, a but is a bug and should be fixed, no matter if it is "big" or "small". > I was preparing an NMU for #558020 when I discovered an FTBFS bug, > with a patch available in another bug (I have merged the two bugs): > > http://bugs.debian.org/528807 > http://bugs.debian.org/458763 Right. > The patch Moritz attached to #458763 is enough for Xpdf to build again. Nice. > Thus, my plan would be to upload an NMU that fixes both #458763 and > #558020. While I was at it, I gave a look at other bugs in the BTS and > found that #495150, #551544 and #515495 can be easily included as well. I included a bunch of patches so far in my own (local) git tree, but I don't have any git repository that is generally available (I would like to have one somewhere where I already have an account---I'm starting to have too many accounts and difficulty in tracking all of them). Of course, I can upload them to any place, as needed. > Rogério, should I go ahead with the NMU or a new upload is expected > really soon? Or, better, would you like to prepare an NMU for the > bugs above based on your debian/changelog? I will be happy to sponsor > it, if needed. Since I don't have upload rights, I would welcome a sponsoring. What I have so far in my git tree is nothing more (or, perhaps, little more) than what I posted as the debdiff that I send here. Do you want to work in together on this? I just noticed that Derek (upstream maintainer) is planning to update xpdf and it would be nice to have him in the loop and sync our trees. I will forward him some pdfs that I've collected and that give poppler or xpdf a hard time. But, for now, let us fix some bugs that are already known and that have fixes. I am also interested in joining forces with people from Ubuntu, Fedora, Suse, Gentoo etc so that we can work together and see xpdf getting faster improvements. Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : rbr...@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://rb.doesntexist.org : Packages for LaTeX : algorithms.berlios.de DebianQA: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=rbrito%40ime.usp.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
