Bug#718264: luatex has unused build-deps on poppler libraries
Hi everyone,
On Fr, 24 Jan 2014, Pino Toscano wrote:
> since a couple of days there's poppler 0.22.5 available in unstable,
> so luatex could switch back using an external poppler (and make the
> poppler-related build dependencies useful again).
Might be, but we have to wait for libpng1.6 to enter unstable *AND*
all the depending libs rebuild ... so don't get overly excited, it
might be another 15 years if I compare to current libpng history ;-)
> Note that having a note about the particular version requirements could
> help; also the too old version was due to the previous lack of
> maintainership (and then the freeze kicked in), which I'm trying to
> address.
That is *REALLY*REALLY*REALLY* great to hear. Up to now cooperation
with libpoppler was non-existent, breaking updates of libpoppler
were unannounced just uploaded, it was quite painful.
I hope that it is getting better from now on, and I will contribute
my best to it, if feasibly possible.
> > For poppler, right, for pixman the system libs are used.
> >
> dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: package could avoid a useless dependency if
> debian/luatex/usr/bin/luatex was not linked against libpixman-1.so.0
> (it uses none of the library's symbols)
No idea what these checks are doing, but pixman is required for building
luatex, if it is necessary or not, I don't care too much, and I don't plan
to make it more portable, especially in the light that I might drop the
luatex package and build form TL source for TL2014.
THanks everyone
Norbert
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