[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#558755: Bug#558755: I don't think it's a poppler defect

[Martin Pitt]

Jonathan Guthrie [2009-11-30 12:23 -0600]:
> In any case, there is a version dependency.  I don't know if libpoppler5
> should have been versioned or what, but the 1.4.2 version of cups is
> clearly not compatible with it and I believe that the dependencies
> should be adjusted such that you can't have cups 1.4.2-2 installed at
> the same time as libpoppler5 0.12.2.

This is indeed the part where poppler is at fault. If a new upstream
version breaks the ABI, it should bump the SONAME. The new poppler in
Debian didn't even bump the shlibs version, so all consumers have to
set the dependencies manually, which is against the spirit and letter
of the library policy.

I'll rebuild cups against the new poppler now.

Martin
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