Bug#1099557: transition: poppler 25.03

Jeremy Bícha jeremy.bicha at canonical.com
Tue Mar 4 23:09:39 GMT 2025


Package: release.debian.org
X-Debbugs-Cc: poppler at packages.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:poppler
User: release.debian.org at packages.debian.org
Usertags: transition

I request permission to do the transition for poppler 25.03.

This is the latest monthly release. Poppler unfortunately bumps the
soname with every monthly release.

I was hoping to target poppler 25.01 for Trixie but Papers 48 RC
requires poppler 25.02. I worked around this for Papers 48 Beta but
the dependency is stronger this time. I would prefer to not release
Trixie with the Papers app stuck on a beta version and I feel more
confident doing this transition than trying to undo the dependency
bump.

I have completed rebuilds for reverse depends using Debusine. The
build IDs range from 73011 to 73103. See
https://debusine.debian.net/debusine/System/work-request/

Failed builds
==========
1. apvlv - Already fails to build in Unstable. https://bugs.debian.org/1099216
2. evince - Builds ok in my sbuild unshare and in Unstable a few days
ago. The build failure is in an appstream build test unrelated to this
poppler transition so I think this can be ignored.
3. bookworm - Similar build failure to evince but builds ok in my
sbuild unshare.
4. libreoffice - Rene has already identified the probable fix and is
doing a test build
5. peony - Not in Testing
6. scribus - I did an NMU which fixed this and confirmed with a local test build
7. sdaps - Not in Testing
8. xpdf - Filed https://bugs.debian.org/1099553 Fixed upstream so can
be NMU'd easily

I believe I did many more reverse-depends builds than were needed for
this transition and apvlv, bookworm, evince, and peony aren't in the
actual soname rebuild list.

Transition tracker
==============
The auto tracker should be good. Waiting for acceptance by ftpmasters
though. Old is libpoppler145. New is libpoppler147.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha



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