In order to avoid possible security problems due to separately maintained libpoppler and xpdf libraries, the approach chosen by Debian is to fantasize about the APIs not having seriously diverged and deliver a crashing binary.
A proposed patch that would cater for the diverged APIs is rejected because of its size, the size being proportional to and catered to the difference in APIs. Dealing with a less than optimal situation by choosing to deal with an nicer imaginary situation instead and calling "Somebody Else's Problem" (TM) on the results of this discrepancy is not just ridiculous but rather lunatic. A really sad state of affairs. -- David Kastrup -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
