Daniel James <daniel 64studio com> writes: >> FWIW, evince 0.8.1-1 is ready for unstable and testing, but is blocked >> by the fact that the poppler maintainer hasn't uploaded a new (needed) >> 0.5.4 release to unstable. > I see that libpoppler 0.5.4 is in experimental: > http://packages.debian.org/experimental/libs/libpoppler1 Yes, that's why the new evince lives also in experimental. > but the package name has changed slightly; it used to be: > > http://packages.debian.org/stable/libs/libpoppler0c2 Yeah, beacuse the poppler API changed, so the SONAME needed to be bumped. > I also note that there have been non-maintainer uploads of this package > in the past, so maybe we can get this sorted out. There is a patch for a > 64-bit fix in the Debian BTS which would certainly be useful for us. Well, that patch is also included in the newer poppler from experimental. In fact, we are waiting for upstream to release a new stable poppler, which was promised to happen in the next few weeks. The problem for Debian is that due to the soname bump, some packages will need to be rebult against the new API, so this needs a bit of coordination. Marc -- BOFH #43: boss forgot system password
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