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On Wednesday 12 July 2006 16:43, exg@g.o wrote: |
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> Guys, |
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> The xpdf version we have currently in the tree is a modified one that |
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> links to poppler, provided in IRC to genstef by an ubuntu developer (no, |
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> ubuntu does not use it); now, I can understand that having a single |
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> point of failure is desiderable, but I completely disagree when doing |
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> this implies using a thirdy-party version not maintained/hosted anywhere |
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> (the reasons being obvious, I hope). Besides, it's improbable that |
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> upstream will add support for poppler in xpdf. |
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> I really would like to see back the upstream version, what do you think? |
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The reason for this was security I believe. xpdf code is embedded in lots of |
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other packages (see http://glsa.gentoo.org for some examples). By linking to |
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poppler this is fixed in one place. |
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Though if someone is willing to maintain a vanilla xpdf ebuild I'd have no |
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complaints. Genstef? |
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Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen |
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Gentoo Linux Security Team |
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