[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Poppler-kit: poppler-splash missing

[Patrick Cardona]

Hi Yavor

On 2026-01-22 15:55:18 +0100 Yavor Doganov <yavor at gnu.org> wrote:

> Patrick Cardona via pkg-GNUstep-maintainers wrote:
>> I was able to build form salsa sources popplerkit and Vindaloo on my
>> first test platform (pi400): debian trixie 13.3
> 
>> While trying to install on a new clean system (same trixie 13.3
>> context on a pi500) I am facing to this error:
> 
>> poppler-splash not found.
> 
> When do you get this error?   When configuring popplerkit or when
> opening a PDF file with Vindaloo?

It is first a config.sh error while building the kit.

> 
> poppler-splash was removed in the upstream poppler library several
> years ago so the popplerkit.framework package has been patched to
> build without it, specifically debian/patches/build_poppler107.patch.
> 
> Are you sure this patch is applied?

Maybe my assumptions about quilt were not appropriate: I use a test:
which -s quilt
if  [ $? -ne 0 ];then
	# Here come quilt install, quilt setting
	# ...
fi
# Then applying patches with quilt...

I will test this and let you know:
- Removing quilt on first test platform
- Try if above test is efficient to install quilt again and setting it 
as expected...

> 
>> I have yet installed:
> 
>> - libpoppler147
> 
> Only this package is necessary (as a runtime dependency).

Good to know.

> 
>> - libpoppler-cpp2
> 
> This will be needed for a future PopplerKit release (I'm slowly
> working on it but have been busy with other things).  Currently,
> PopplerKit is using the private/unstable poppler C++ API which is
> causing us trouble with nearly every new Poppler release.  My goal is
> to switch to the official C++ bindings which are pretty stable.
> 
>> Do you have one thought about what I am lacking on my deps list?
> 
> I don't think this is a dependency issue.
> 

Thank you for these aknwoledgements.

Cheers,
Patrick

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