I am working on packaging some software that uses pdftotext and didn't realize until today that there were two, one in xpdf-utils (which I was used to using) and one in poppler-utils (that was new to me). I was concerned that they might have different sets of flags so I started poking around to see if I could figure out what the difference was, but couldn't find much. Nothing listed in their descriptions or /usr/share/doc/* stuff. The only hint I found was that xpdf-utils conflicts/replaces/provides poppler-utils, but after reading this bug it appears maybe I shouldn't read too much into that?
Could you write a paragraph or two explaining how the two projects relate and if I can expect them to be reasonable replacements for each other and include it in the README.Debian, or put something in the package description, or something? Ideally this would be in both packages, but at least in xpdf* since it does the c/r/p. I understand the description might be "politics", but at least we could have some history of their origin/forking/etc so people could decide which to use on their own. That would help a lot. Thanks, -- Matt Taggart [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
