On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 06:13:50PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 06:06:23PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 05:09:51PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote:
> > > On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 04:47:40PM +0100, Matthias Kilian wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > I just looked at the diff from poppler-0.16 (which is eol) to
> > > > poppler-0.18. They dropped support for qt3, so updating poppler to
> > > > -0.18 will break some kde3 related ports (x11/kde/graphics3,
> > > > x11/kde/office3, x11/tellico).
> > > > 
> > > > I could try to disable poppler for these three ports. Any better
> > > > ideas?
> > > > 
> > > > CIao,
> > > >         Kili
> > > 
> > > Well, if you remove poppler support in kdegraphics, you could as well
> > > remove kdegraphics... likewise for koffice, it will kill a large part
> > > of it.
> > Well... unlikely to happen...
> 
> The only solution I see if we do not want to get stuck because of old 
> unmaintained stuffs is to copy print/poppler to print/poppler016 (or whatever 
> name), rename/fix the conflicts and adapt these 3 ports to use poppler016, 
> then update print/poppler to version 0.18.
> I can bet some ports will soon require poppler >= 0.18 soon, so better be 
> proactive about it.

Well, I'll have a look and see if they really dropped poppler-qt3 for a real
reason rather than "hey it's old, let's switch to the shiny new shit"...
as soon as kili gives me his work...

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