On Mon, 4 Nov 2013 13:01:22 +0100 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2013-11-01 12:58:19 +0100, Francesco Poli (wintermute) wrote: > > I wonder why nobody thought to report a release-critical bug against > > libfontconfig1, in order to prevent its migration until the issue in > > xpdf is fixed... > > I am doing this right now, in order to at least give apt-listbugs users > > an opportunity to be warned about this issue and to pin libfontconfig1, > > until a fixed xpdf has migrated into testing. > > Users should be aware that remaining with libfontconfig1 2.10.2-2 > may block some security fixes, since many new packages are built > with libfontconfig1 2.11.x thus depends on this version at least.
Hi Vincent, that's true, no doubt. > This is the case with iceweasel (via xulrunner-24.0), which I had > to rebuild locally on my machines (since I still want xpdf to be > usable). Users who are not willing to do the same (perhaps because they do not have the time and/or the required expertise), will have to choose between an up-to-date system with an unusable xpdf and a system lagging behind some package upgrades with a usable xpdf. Unfortunately. That's why I really hope this issue may be fixed very soon... -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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