Bug#768475: evince: segfault on trying to open a pdf

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort pochu at debian.org
Sun Nov 9 22:04:42 UTC 2014


Control: reassign -1 libpoppler-glib8 0.26.5-2

On 09/11/14 00:51, Lennert Van Alboom wrote:
> I think you just hit bull's eye there. This was what I tested with:
>
> [alver at Crusoe ~]$ dpkg -l *poppler* | grep ^ii
> ii  libpoppler-glib8:amd64 0.26.5-2     amd64        PDF rendering library (GLib-based shared library)
> ii  libpoppler46:amd64     0.26.5-1     amd64        PDF rendering library
> ii  poppler-data           0.4.7-1      all          encoding data for the poppler PDF rendering library
> ii  poppler-utils          0.26.5-2     amd64        PDF utilities (based on Poppler)
>
> Do note the slight version difference between libpoppler46:amd64 and
> libpoppler-glib8:amd64.
>
> When installing libpoppler-dev as you requested, it pulled in
> libpoppler46:amd64 0.26.5-2, and lo and behold, evince opens PDFs again. So
> something in the tiny versions caused it, and somehow the version didn't get up
> to my workstation until just now.

Reassigning to libpoppler. It sounds like libpoppler ought to have tighter 
dependencies if version mismatches cause segfaults.

Cheers,
Emilio



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