Bug#969907: inkscape, etc. crashing with mismatched libpoppler102 and libpoppler-glib8

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 08:02:20PM +0200, Ivo De Decker wrote:
> There is a theoretical and a practical aspect to this issue. From a
> theoretical point of view, the dependency relations should not be stricter
> than necessary, to allow partial upgrades and to avoid complicating
> migration to testing of library transitions.

Then again, I believe the project at large is moving towards
stricter-than-necessary dependencies (see the implied dh_makeshlibs -V
in dh compat 12, lintian nagging about the Build-Depends-Package in
.symbols files, etc).

I also don't believe a stricter dependency between libpoppler102 and
libpoppler-glib8 would have any of the issue you mention.

> It would create the desired dependency, but I'm not sure if this is better
> than just manually adding it to the 2 remaining packages we are aware of
> (especially at this stage of the freeze).

> For now, though (and especially for bullseye), I think we should accept
> that we aren't going to solve this issue in general. The best we can do, is
> to try to fix obvious cases where we are aware of the issue. In other cases,
> we'll probably need to advise our users to do a full upgrade instead of a
> partial one.

So, if that's what you think, should I upload an inkscape with a manual
dependency on libpoppler-glib8 >= 20.09.0?  (mhh, is there a way to do
this without writing it in d/control?).

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