[Secure-testing-team] Bug#527840: Needs to be actively maintained or removed

[Moritz Muehlenhoff]

Package: xpdf
Severity: serious

xpdf has seen it's last maintainer upload two years ago. A package
like xpdf with a long-standing track record of security issues
needs an active maintainer.

(An cleanest solution might be to drop xpdf altogether; the
correct way to implement a PDF viewer these days is to build
on top of poppler, such a okular, evince or epdfview.

Cheers,
        Moritz

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO-8859-15 at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages xpdf depends on:
pn  xpdf-common                   <none>     (no description available)
pn  xpdf-reader                   <none>     (no description available)
pn  xpdf-utils                    <none>     (no description available)

xpdf recommends no packages.

xpdf suggests no packages.