[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#558755: Bug#558755: I don't think it's a poppler defect

[Tomáš Janoušek]

Hello,

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:34:27PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Jonathan Guthrie [2009-11-30 12:23 -0600]:
> > In any case, there is a version dependency.  I don't know if libpoppler5
> > should have been versioned or what, but the 1.4.2 version of cups is
> > clearly not compatible with it and I believe that the dependencies
> > should be adjusted such that you can't have cups 1.4.2-2 installed at
> > the same time as libpoppler5 0.12.2.
> 
> This is indeed the part where poppler is at fault. If a new upstream
> version breaks the ABI, it should bump the SONAME. The new poppler in
> Debian didn't even bump the shlibs version, so all consumers have to
> set the dependencies manually, which is against the spirit and letter
> of the library policy.
> 
> I'll rebuild cups against the new poppler now.

Please note that poppler in Debian has been fixed:
http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/poppler/news/20091130T170251Z.html

Rebuilding against what is on mirrors now would bring the same problem
tomorrow.

-- 
Tomáš Janoušek, a.k.a. Liskni_si, http://work.lisk.in/