Hi Hamish! On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:41:11 +0100, Luca Capello wrote: > On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:34:12 +0100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 12:14:38AM +0100, Luca Capello wrote: >>> xpdf-reader ships pdftoppm and I cannot find the reason in the >>> debian/changelog or in upstream documentation. This can causes problems >>> with poppler-utils, which ships pdftoppm as well: >> >> IIRC, pdftoppm required more libraries than the other xpdf-utils tools >> so it was included in the heavier xpdf-reader package. There doesn't >> seem to be any reason for that any more though, so this bug should be >> fixed. > > I thought the same, but after having checked the libraries needed by > pdftoppm I was puzzled ;-)
Since this bus is now 2-month-old, I decided to go for a 10-day delayed NMU (as per Developer's Reference ยง 5.11.1. "When and how to do an NMU", http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/pkgs.html#nmu-guidelines). Then I found that Xpdf FTBFS because of lesstif patches: http://bugs.debian.org/458763 Since there is a discussion about Xpdf future in Debian, I stopped all my work for the moment: http://bugs.debian.org/527840 However, before preparing the NMU, I checked the rdepends for xpdf-reader, which are listed below, with the type of reverse depencency. 1) Depends: a) xpdf-reader xpdf Nothing to do, everything will continue to work given that xpdf also depends on xpdf-utils. 2) Recommends: a) xpdf-reader | pdf-viewer mpi-specs ebook-dev-alp wise-doc latexmk hmmer-doc auctex b) xpdf-reader whizzytex libinventor0 c) gv | xpdf-reader | pdf-viewer docbook-xsl-doc-pdf Everything will continue to work, since in these cases the recommendation is for viewing PDFs. d) poppler-utils | xpdf-reader impressive impressive must change this to "poppler-utils | xpdf-utils", since it requires pdftoppm: http://bugs.debian.org/565799 3) Suggests: a) xpdf-reader | pdf-viewer xpdf-common xfig-doc texlive-base mc libtioga-ruby1.8 b) xpdf-reader pycocuma Everything will continue to work, since in these cases the suggestion is for viewing PDFs. 4) Conflicts: xpdf-reader (<< 1.00-4) libfreetype6 This is a very old conflicts which should not be necessary anymore. 5) Replaces: xpdf-reader poppler-utils This must be fixed as soon as this bug is fixed: http://bugs.debian.org/558021 As you could read, the two cases which require attentions have been properly marked in the BTS. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca
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