Hi Simo, Clement, On Wednesday 19 August 2009 10:50:34 Clement Hermann (nodens) wrote: > Le 18/08/2009 16:26, Simo Kauppi a écrit : > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:19:12PM +0200, Clement Hermann (nodens) wrote: [...] > >> Is there any news on this bug ? would you accept a patch to use > >> libpoppler instead of embedded xpdf ? > > > > Nothing new; the 0.9.0 release of swftools still uses the xpdf 3.02 > > embedded in it and the last time I asked, the upstream had no plans to > > start using libpoppler instead. > > I saw a patch by Patrice Dumas on the swftools mailing list last year > [1]. It was accepted and applied at the time, I couldn't find why it was > removed, but maybe it could be tweaked to apply against current swftools. > > http://www.mail-archive.com/swftools-com...@nongnu.org/msg02205.html
I was wondering what's the status regarding the use of libpoppler. xpdf is already a security nightmare on its own and it might be removed from the archive if nobody steps up to properly maintain it, and as such you might guess that something similar might happen to swftools. If there are no updates on this issue in a month, I guess I'll request the removal of the package from testing as a first step. Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer www.debian.org - get.debian.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
