retitle 380382 RM: gpdf -- RoQA; orphaned, better alternatives, security
problems
retitle 382659 RM: gpdf -- RoQA; orphaned, better alternatives, security
problems
thanks
----- Forwarded message from Moritz Muehlenhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----
From: Moritz Muehlenhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: gpdf still embeds xpdf code
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 15:43:49 +0200
To: debian-qa@lists.debian.org
User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Debian)
Hi,
I noticed that gpdf has been orphaned as current Gnome has switched
to evince as the PDF viewer. The problem is that gpdf still embeds
a complete copy of the xpdf code base. xpdf has a poor security
history and I expect more issues to pop up during the 30 months of
Etch security support. Please port gpdf to poppler or remove it from
the archive. The first option is straight-forward, as poppler is
based on xpdf as well. (Porting pdftohtml to poppler took me only
half an hour). However, I assume that removing it entirely might
be the better option, as evince is now the standard PDF viewer.
Cheers,
Moritz
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