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Re: [ITP] poppler (attn: xpdf maintainer)
- From: "Dr. Volker Zell" <dr dot volker dot zell at oracle dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:15:46 +0100
- Subject: Re: [ITP] poppler (attn: xpdf maintainer)
- References: <1330410005.6720.72.camel@YAAKOV04>
>>>>> Yaakov writes:
> Another TeX Live dependency:
> ftp://ftp.cygwinports.org/pub/cygwinports/uploads/poppler/
> ftp://ftp.cygwinports.org/pub/cygwinports/release-2/poppler-data/
> Dr. Volker Zell,
> The command-line utilities in poppler conflict with those in xpdf. As
> poppler has more features and is better maintained, I propose to follow
> Fedora's lead and ship them in poppler instead of xpdf.
> All I need you to do is, while you're updating to xpdf-3.03, add this
> line to your .cygport after cyginstall:
> rm -fr ${D}/usr/{bin,share/man/man1}/pdf*
> Thanks,
I uploaded an new xpdf-3.03 to vzell@sourceware.org:/home/vzell/xpdf
You can just move it to the release are whenever you're ready.
By the way, I left the new (3.03) /usr/bin/pdfdetach (and man page) in
the package as it seems not to be in your poppler package yet.
> Yaakov
Ciao
Volker