Bug#399439: evince browser plugin available as of version 3.14

[Andres Gomez Garcia]

On Tue, 2015-08-04 at 14:35 +0200, Miguel Rubio-Roy wrote:
> On Wed, 20 May 2015 08:34:04 +0200 Fabian Greffrath <fabian at debian.or
> g> wrote:
> > 
> > Am Montag, den 20.10.2014, 11:25 +0200 schrieb Fabian Greffrath: 
> > > 
> > > In the current Debian package, the plugin is built, but not
> > > installed.
> > > Please add the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins path to the appropriate
> > > debian/*.install files.
> > I have tested the plugin locally and it works great with Epiphany.
> > If we
> > decide to ship it in Debian (I mean, should we? This plugin comes a
> > bit
> > late, as NPAPI is widely considered mostly dead nowadays.), should
> > we
> > ship it in a separate package, like e.g. totem did, or stuff it
> > into the
> > main package? I don't think it will pull in any GNOME-only
> > dependencies:
> I've also tested the plugin in Evince's source and it works great
> although it still lacks important features such as search and
> copy&paste, but it provides the easiest solution to see PDF files in-
> browser in Epiphany. I'd love to see it included in the binary
> packages. Is it being considered? Has a decision been taken?

I'm also a user of this plugin in a local build.

I think it works great and it would be a good addition, too. If you
agree, I think I could find some time slot to create a patch for the
source package in order to create an individual package for its
installation.

-- 
Br,

Andres