Re: pdftk retired?

2021-09-08 Thread PGNet Dev
On 9/8/21 06:28, Sérgio Basto wrote: I think the gui of pdftk that I used is pdfchain, I also built pdfchain in my copr repo [3] , if both packages works well I can unretire them . Thank you fyi, here on f34 dnf install bouncycastle rpm -Uvh \

Re: pdftk retired?

2021-09-08 Thread Sérgio Basto
On Thu, 2021-09-02 at 23:29 +0100, Sérgio Basto wrote: > On Thu, 2021-09-02 at 16:38 +, Nils K wrote: > > 7 years later I find this and was surprised after switching from > > Debian/Ubuntu. > > I cannot find the source or any licensing information for current > > versions however there are

Re: pdftk retired?

2021-09-03 Thread Michael J Gruber
Depending on what you want to achieve, mupdf and its tools may be an option. Back then I switched impressive from pdftk to mupdf/mutool. It has python bindings, too. As for a "swiss army knife" command line utility, qpdf is very versatile if you don't mind the learning curve. There is a gui

Re: pdftk retired?

2021-09-02 Thread Sérgio Basto
On Thu, 2021-09-02 at 16:38 +, Nils K wrote: > 7 years later I find this and was surprised after switching from > Debian/Ubuntu. > I cannot find the source or any licensing information for current > versions however there are several alternatives. > One which is already in the repos is

Re: pdftk retired?

2021-09-02 Thread Nils K
7 years later I find this and was surprised after switching from Debian/Ubuntu. I cannot find the source or any licensing information for current versions however there are several alternatives. One which is already in the repos is pdf-stapler which is good for the basics but lacks some of the

Re: GCJ [was: pdftk retired?]

2014-03-26 Thread Andrew Haley
On 03/24/2014 12:48 PM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 6:02 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: On 03/22/2014 07:51 PM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 7:24 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: On 03/19/2014 10:59 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote: And JDK5 might be good enough for the use

Re: GCJ [was: pdftk retired?]

2014-03-24 Thread Andrew Haley
On 03/22/2014 07:51 PM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 7:24 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: On 03/19/2014 10:59 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote: And JDK5 might be good enough for the use required. It doesn't claim to be anything more than that, so I don't see the harm in leaving it there.

Re: GCJ [was: pdftk retired?]

2014-03-24 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 6:02 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: On 03/22/2014 07:51 PM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 7:24 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: On 03/19/2014 10:59 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote: And JDK5 might be good enough for the use required. It doesn't claim to be anything more than

Re: GCJ [was: pdftk retired?]

2014-03-22 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 7:24 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: On 03/19/2014 10:59 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote: And JDK5 might be good enough for the use required. It doesn't claim to be anything more than that, so I don't see the harm in leaving it there. Speaking as the upstream maintainer, I do. Hi

Re: GCJ [was: pdftk retired?]

2014-03-20 Thread Andrew Haley
On 03/19/2014 10:59 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote: - Original Message - On 03/08/2014 03:37 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: Sorry I am missing something. Why can't we keep the old pdftk that works with itext2? Check the whole thread -

Re: GCJ [was: pdftk retired?]

2014-03-19 Thread Andrew Hughes
- Original Message - On 03/08/2014 03:37 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: Sorry I am missing something. Why can't we keep the old pdftk that works with itext2? Check the whole thread - because of GCJ dependency. iText is second

Re: GCJ [was: pdftk retired?]

2014-03-19 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi And JDK5 might be good enough for the use required. It doesn't claim to be anything more than that, so I don't see the harm in leaving it there. We don't orphan or retire packages based on harm. We do it when there is noone volunteering to maintain it. If you care about GCJ, step up

GCJ [was: pdftk retired?]

2014-03-10 Thread Andrew Haley
On 03/08/2014 03:37 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: Sorry I am missing something. Why can't we keep the old pdftk that works with itext2? Check the whole thread - because of GCJ dependency. iText is second issue. The first could be fixed by

pdfchain retired [was Re: pdftk retired?]

2014-03-09 Thread Susi Lehtola
Quoting Susi Lehtola jussileht...@fedoraproject.org: On Thu, 06 Mar 2014 14:52:27 -0500 Tom Callaway tcall...@redhat.com wrote: That are the two reasons why I'm not able to support pdftk on Fedora anymore and was forced to reitred this package. I'm sorry for nayone who maintaining any

Re: pdftk retired?

2014-03-08 Thread Kevin Kofler
Orcan Ogetbil wrote: The only things I read in the thread are GCJ is abandoned and we really want to get rid of GCJ. Am I supposed to come to the conclusion that the GCJ package is dropped from Fedora? If so, where is this decision made? Why was it made without consulting GCJ users? We have

Re: pdftk retired?

2014-03-07 Thread Susi Lehtola
On Thu, 06 Mar 2014 14:52:27 -0500 Tom Callaway tcall...@redhat.com wrote: That are the two reasons why I'm not able to support pdftk on Fedora anymore and was forced to reitred this package. I'm sorry for nayone who maintaining any package with dependencies on this package. This is why

Re: pdftk retired?

2014-03-07 Thread Michal Srb
On 03/07/2014 01:30 PM, Susi Lehtola wrote: On Thu, 06 Mar 2014 14:52:27 -0500 Tom Callaway tcall...@redhat.com wrote: That are the two reasons why I'm not able to support pdftk on Fedora anymore and was forced to reitred this package. I'm sorry for nayone who maintaining any package with

Re: pdftk retired?

2014-03-07 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Tom Callaway wrote: On 03/06/2014 06:41 AM, Jochen Schmitt wrote: On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 12:03:46PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: pdftk has a hard dependency on GCJ because it's a C++ program that uses a Java library (iText) through CNI. I once tried to

Re: pdftk retired?

2014-03-07 Thread Jaroslav Reznik
- Original Message - On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Tom Callaway wrote: On 03/06/2014 06:41 AM, Jochen Schmitt wrote: On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 12:03:46PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: pdftk has a hard dependency on GCJ because it's a C++ program that uses a Java library (iText)

Re: pdftk retired?

2014-03-07 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: Sorry I am missing something. Why can't we keep the old pdftk that works with itext2? Check the whole thread - because of GCJ dependency. iText is second issue. The first could be fixed by rewrite of offending part of code to Java but

pdftk retired?

2014-03-06 Thread Michael J Gruber
I just git a broken dependencies notice for a package that I maintain. The reason is that pdftk got retired just the other day. I may have missed a corresponding post on fedora-devel, but I think a heads up notice to maintainers of depending packages may be in order before you retire a package,

Re: pdftk retired?

2014-03-06 Thread Susi Lehtola
On Thu, 06 Mar 2014 11:31:18 +0100 Michael J Gruber m...@fedoraproject.org wrote: I just git a broken dependencies notice for a package that I maintain. The reason is that pdftk got retired just the other day. I may have missed a corresponding post on fedora-devel, but I think a heads up

Re: pdftk retired?

2014-03-06 Thread Florian Weimer
On 03/06/2014 11:31 AM, Michael J Gruber wrote: As for pdftk: I see 2 failed builds for version 1.45 and none for the current version 2.02 (which probably breaks the api anyways). What are the plans? Retire pdftk completely? Start fresh with pdftk2? pdftk has a hard dependency on GCJ because

Re: pdftk retired?

2014-03-06 Thread Jochen Schmitt
On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 12:03:46PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: pdftk has a hard dependency on GCJ because it's a C++ program that uses a Java library (iText) through CNI. I once tried to rewrite the C++ part in Java, but the existing command line parser is quite involved, so I didn't quite

Re: pdftk retired?

2014-03-06 Thread Joachim Backes
On 03/06/2014 12:03 PM, Susi Lehtola wrote: On Thu, 06 Mar 2014 11:31:18 +0100 Michael J Gruber m...@fedoraproject.org wrote: I just git a broken dependencies notice for a package that I maintain. The reason is that pdftk got retired just the other day. I may have missed a corresponding post

Re: pdftk retired?

2014-03-06 Thread Tom Callaway
On 03/06/2014 06:41 AM, Jochen Schmitt wrote: On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 12:03:46PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: pdftk has a hard dependency on GCJ because it's a C++ program that uses a Java library (iText) through CNI. I once tried to rewrite the C++ part in Java, but the existing command