Hello, On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:34:27PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > Jonathan Guthrie [2009-11-30 12:23 -0600]: > > In any case, there is a version dependency. I don't know if libpoppler5 > > should have been versioned or what, but the 1.4.2 version of cups is > > clearly not compatible with it and I believe that the dependencies > > should be adjusted such that you can't have cups 1.4.2-2 installed at > > the same time as libpoppler5 0.12.2. > > This is indeed the part where poppler is at fault. If a new upstream > version breaks the ABI, it should bump the SONAME. The new poppler in > Debian didn't even bump the shlibs version, so all consumers have to > set the dependencies manually, which is against the spirit and letter > of the library policy. > > I'll rebuild cups against the new poppler now.
Please note that poppler in Debian has been fixed: http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/poppler/news/20091130T170251Z.html Rebuilding against what is on mirrors now would bring the same problem tomorrow. -- Tomáš Janoušek, a.k.a. Liskni_si, http://work.lisk.in/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
