On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 03:13:33PM +0200, Dr. Tilo Levante wrote: > Am 18.07.2010 15:04, schrieb Paul Wise: > >The bug report mentions security issues, I assume those are associated > >with the embedded code copy of xpdf mentioned in the bug report. > >poppler is a shared library fork of xpdf. Moving to a shared library > >instead of an embedded code copy means that the security team have one > >package to patch instead of many. > > > Thanks, I found the long list > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=527449 > it only mentions xpdf bugs, so I try to remove the embedded xpdf > code and upload the result.
FYI: xpdf has recently patched in Debian to use poppler. You may wish to see how it is done in 3.02-9. It is relatively simple one by copying useful parts of source and making several sed commands in package script only. The same trick should be good for this too. Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100719025612.ga3...@debian.org
