[arch-dev-public] poppler soname bump

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Wed Oct 13 00:10:15 EDT 2010


On 13/10/10 05:54, Ionuț Bîru wrote:
> On 06/22/2010 11:29 PM, Jan de Groot wrote:
>> The poppler/poppler-glib update to 0.14 includes a soname bump for
>> poppler and poppler-glib. Packages depending on these libraries should
>> be rebuilt.
>> I already did all packages in extra, some packages in community still
>> need an update. To track the rebuild, a todo list was created:
>> http://www.archlinux.org/todo/38/
>>
>> Please rebuild these packages in community-testing and flag them as
>> complete after that.
>>
>
> poppler < 0.14.4 has a vulnerability[1] and it needs to be moved as soon
> as possible. The only package from todo is koffice-filters.
>
> koffice-filters is a bit special. koffice is already rebuilt in testing
> against python2 2.7.
>
> to move it fast, i propose to rebuild koffice-filter extra against
> staging bumping pkgrel to 1.1 (testing repo disable) and push it in
> staging.
>
> after poppler is moved in extra, rebuild the testing against extra.
>
> Ronald, what do you think?
>
> [1] http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2010/Oct/1024520.html
>

The koffice-kword package has three files with /usr/bin/python -> 
python2 changes and that is the only reason it is in testing.   Rebuild 
it against poppler in [staging] (making sure those files still point at 
python2...), move it to [extra] and remove the one in [testing].

Allan



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