[Secure-testing-team] Bits from the Testing Security team

Hamish Moffatt hamish at debian.org
Tue Oct 16 00:03:02 UTC 2007


Hi,

On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 01:08:19AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Moritz Muehlenhoff [2007-10-15 19:57 +0200]:
> > Can we please cherry-pick all xpdf improvements into poppler 4-5 months
> > prior to Lenny release and link xpdf against poppler?
> > IIRC Ubuntu is doing this for some time now, CCing Martin Pitt.
> 
> Oh, you mean [1]? I did that in a bored hour literally years ago, but
> it has never been picked up by any distro and packaged properly (not
> by Ubuntu either). I haven't looked into this again for ages, but I
> think porting the current xpdf UI to poppler would be fairly easy,
> too. For that to be sustainable, though, it shuold be done in a better
> way with #ifdefs, etc., so that upstream might accept it.

I can't imagine that upstream would ever be interested in linking
against a library which is a fork of his own code, and an older/inferior
version of his code at that.


Hamish
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