Hi there! I am a happy Xpdf user, for various reasons, the first one being is its small number of dependencies:
===== r...@gismo:/# apt-get install xpdf [...] The following NEW packages will be installed: defoma file gsfonts lesstif2 libfreetype6 libice6 libmagic1 libnewt0.52 libpaper1 libpopt0 libsm6 libt1-5 libx11-6 libx11-data libxau6 libxcb1 libxdmcp6 libxext6 libxp6 libxpm4 libxt6 ucf whiptail x11-common xpdf xpdf-common xpdf-reader xpdf-utils 0 upgraded, 28 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 9970kB of archives. After this operation, 27.0MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n Abort. r...@gismo:/# apt-get install epdfview poppler-utils [...] The following NEW packages will be installed: defoma epdfview file fontconfig fontconfig-config libatk1.0-0 libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3 libcairo2 libcups2 libdatrie1 libdbus-1-3 libdirectfb-1.2-0 libfontconfig1 libfreetype6 libglib2.0-0 libgssapi-krb5-2 libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-common libjasper1 libjpeg62 libk5crypto3 libkeyutils1 libkrb5-3 libkrb5support0 liblcms1 libmagic1 libnewt0.52 libopenjpeg2 libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common libpcre3 libpixman-1-0 libpng12-0 libpoppler-glib4 libpoppler5 libpopt0 libsysfs2 libthai-data libthai0 libtiff4 libts-0.0-0 libx11-6 libx11-data libxau6 libxcb-render-util0 libxcb-render0 libxcb1 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxdmcp6 libxext6 libxfixes3 libxft2 libxi6 libxinerama1 libxml2 libxrandr2 libxrender1 poppler-utils shared-mime-info tsconf ttf-dejavu-core ucf whiptail 0 upgraded, 67 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 23.4MB of archives. After this operation, 66.0MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n Abort. r...@gismo:/# ===== While I agree that on any modern system most of the epdfview dependencies will be anyway installed, the same is true for Xpdf as well. And the 2/3 times I tried to move to epdfview I was quite unsatisfied (let Evince out from this...). Anyway, I am now in a situation where either I move away from Xpdf or I fix the bugs which are blocking CUPS upgrades on my sid: http://bugs.debian.org/557885 http://bugs.debian.org/558020 I was preparing an NMU for #558020 when I discovered an FTBFS bug, with a patch available in another bug (I have merged the two bugs): http://bugs.debian.org/528807 http://bugs.debian.org/458763 The patch Moritz attached to #458763 is enough for Xpdf to build again. Thus, my plan would be to upload an NMU that fixes both #458763 and #558020. While I was at it, I gave a look at other bugs in the BTS and found that #495150, #551544 and #515495 can be easily included as well. Rogério, should I go ahead with the NMU or a new upload is expected really soon? Or, better, would you like to prepare an NMU for the bugs above based on your debian/changelog? I will be happy to sponsor it, if needed. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca
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