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dilfridge at gentoo

Aug 6, 2012, 3:28 PM

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Last rites: app-text/epdfview

# Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge [at] gentoo> (7 Aug 2012)
# Many display bugs and compatibility problems, does not build with cups-1.6.
# Upstream is dead. There's no real way to support this anymore. Masked for
# removal in 30 days.
app-text/epdfview

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Andreas K. Huettel
Gentoo Linux developer
dilfridge [at] gentoo
http://www.akhuettel.de/

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dilfridge at gentoo

Aug 6, 2012, 5:10 PM

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Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: app-text/epdfview [In reply to]

Am Dienstag 07 August 2012, 00:28:16 schrieb Andreas K. Huettel:
> # Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge [at] gentoo> (7 Aug 2012)
> # Many display bugs and compatibility problems, does not build with
> cups-1.6. # Upstream is dead. There's no real way to support this anymore.
> Masked for # removal in 30 days.
> app-text/epdfview

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# Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge [at] gentoo> (7 Aug 2012)
# Many display bugs and compatibility problems, does not build with cups-1.6.
# Upstream is dead. There's no real way to support this anymore. Masked for
# removal in 30 days. Unfortunately the best lightweight replacement I can
# recommend is app-text/apvlv, otherwise you can go for app-text/acroread
# (huge, closed source), kde-base/okular (KDE), or app-text/evince (Gnome).
app-text/epdfview

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Andreas K. Huettel
Gentoo Linux developer
dilfridge [at] gentoo
http://www.akhuettel.de/

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heroxbd at gentoo

Aug 6, 2012, 8:00 PM

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Re: Last rites: app-text/epdfview [In reply to]

Hi,

"Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge [at] gentoo> writes:

> # Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge [at] gentoo> (7 Aug 2012)
> # Many display bugs and compatibility problems, does not build with cups-1.6.
> # Upstream is dead. There's no real way to support this anymore. Masked for
> # removal in 30 days.
> app-text/epdfview

I remember when xpdf was removed, epdfview was recommended as a
lightweight alternative. How about this time?

Best,
Benda

mgorny at gentoo

Aug 7, 2012, 12:35 AM

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Re: Last rites: app-text/epdfview [In reply to]

On Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:00:13 +0900
heroxbd [at] gentoo wrote:

> Hi,
>
> "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge [at] gentoo> writes:
>
> > # Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge [at] gentoo> (7 Aug 2012)
> > # Many display bugs and compatibility problems, does not build with
> > cups-1.6. # Upstream is dead. There's no real way to support this
> > anymore. Masked for # removal in 30 days.
> > app-text/epdfview
>
> I remember when xpdf was removed, epdfview was recommended as a
> lightweight alternative. How about this time?

I personally migrated to evince a while ago. It is a bit GNOME, TBH but
doesn't really pull in much. And is definitely less buggy.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny

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c.nicolas at gmail

Aug 7, 2012, 1:06 AM

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Re: Last rites: app-text/epdfview [In reply to]

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heroxbd [at] gentoo wrote:
> I remember when xpdf was removed, epdfview was recommended as a
> lightweight alternative. How about this time?

Have you gave a try to app-text/mupdf?
It is very lightweight and does not depends on poppler.

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Cyprien Nicolas (Fulax)
Gentoo Lisp/Scheme contrib.
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grozin at gentoo

Aug 7, 2012, 2:06 AM

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Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: app-text/epdfview [In reply to]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2012, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> # Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge [at] gentoo> (7 Aug 2012)
> # Many display bugs and compatibility problems, does not build with cups-1.6.
> # Upstream is dead. There's no real way to support this anymore. Masked for
> # removal in 30 days. Unfortunately the best lightweight replacement I can
> # recommend is app-text/apvlv, otherwise you can go for app-text/acroread
> # (huge, closed source), kde-base/okular (KDE), or app-text/evince (Gnome).
> app-text/epdfview

app-text/qpdfview is not bad (though I prefer okular).

Andrey

ssuominen at gentoo

Aug 7, 2012, 2:40 AM

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Re: Last rites: app-text/epdfview [In reply to]

On 08/07/2012 06:00 AM, heroxbd [at] gentoo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge [at] gentoo> writes:
>
>> # Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge [at] gentoo> (7 Aug 2012)
>> # Many display bugs and compatibility problems, does not build with cups-1.6.
>> # Upstream is dead. There's no real way to support this anymore. Masked for
>> # removal in 30 days.
>> app-text/epdfview
>
> I remember when xpdf was removed, epdfview was recommended as a
> lightweight alternative. How about this time?

app-text/zathura-meta

(zathura supports both poppler and mupdf backends but only poppler
backend is in Portage for now because our mupdf package sucks wrt bugs
407805 and 407807)

waltdnes at waltdnes

Aug 8, 2012, 5:51 PM

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Re: Last rites: app-text/epdfview [In reply to]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 12:00:13PM +0900, heroxbd [at] gentoo wrote

> I remember when xpdf was removed, epdfview was recommended as a
> lightweight alternative. How about this time?

Try apvlv. Note, you *MUST* first build poppler with the
"xpdf-headers" USE flag. Only then will apvlv build properly. I've
reported this bug, and I assume that the apvlv ebuild will be changed to
look for the app-text/poppler[xpdf-headers] before proceeding further.

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes [at] waltdnes>

peter at stuge

Aug 8, 2012, 6:22 PM

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Re: Last rites: app-text/epdfview [In reply to]

Walter Dnes wrote:
> > I remember when xpdf was removed, epdfview was recommended as a
> > lightweight alternative. How about this time?
>
> Try apvlv. Note, you *MUST* first build poppler with the
> "xpdf-headers" USE flag. Only then will apvlv build properly. I've
> reported this bug, and I assume that the apvlv ebuild will be changed to
> look for the app-text/poppler[xpdf-headers]

Bug number? I don't find it.

//Peter

waltdnes at waltdnes

Aug 8, 2012, 7:51 PM

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Re: Last rites: app-text/epdfview [In reply to]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 03:22:08AM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote
> Walter Dnes wrote:
> > > I remember when xpdf was removed, epdfview was recommended as a
> > > lightweight alternative. How about this time?
> >
> > Try apvlv. Note, you *MUST* first build poppler with the
> > "xpdf-headers" USE flag. Only then will apvlv build properly. I've
> > reported this bug, and I assume that the apvlv ebuild will be changed to
> > look for the app-text/poppler[xpdf-headers]
>
> Bug number? I don't find it.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430306

It's already marked RESOLVED/FIXED, which may be why it doesn't turn
up in your search.

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes [at] waltdnes>

peter at stuge

Aug 8, 2012, 7:55 PM

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Re: Last rites: app-text/epdfview [In reply to]

Samuli Suominen wrote:
> our mupdf package sucks wrt bugs 407805 and 407807

It's pretty clear that the latter is an upstream problem. Will you
fix it?

//Peter

ssuominen at gentoo

Aug 9, 2012, 1:23 AM

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Re: Last rites: app-text/epdfview [In reply to]

On 08/09/2012 05:55 AM, Peter Stuge wrote:
> Samuli Suominen wrote:
>> our mupdf package sucks wrt bugs 407805 and 407807
>
> It's pretty clear that the latter is an upstream problem.

We should patch it to build shared libs, with or without cooperation
from upstream.

> Will you fix it?

Absolutely, I didn't file the bug for nothing. It's there to remind me
until I do.

>
>
> //Peter
>

lu_zero at gentoo

Aug 9, 2012, 1:52 AM

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Re: Last rites: app-text/epdfview [In reply to]

On 08/07/2012 05:00 AM, heroxbd [at] gentoo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge [at] gentoo> writes:
>
>> # Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge [at] gentoo> (7 Aug 2012)
>> # Many display bugs and compatibility problems, does not build with cups-1.6.
>> # Upstream is dead. There's no real way to support this anymore. Masked for
>> # removal in 30 days.
>> app-text/epdfview
>
> I remember when xpdf was removed, epdfview was recommended as a
> lightweight alternative. How about this time?

envision once hits portage, zathura with the proper plugin (remind me to
add the mupdf one)

I wonder why there isn't a gtk mupdf backed one yet.

lu

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