[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Poppler-kit: poppler-splash missing (fwd) - FIXED

[Patrick Cardona]

Hi Yavor,

I fixedit : it was my fault.
On the first platform, I had two quilt conf files: .quiltrc and .quilt.
My script was writing the conf to unexpected .quilt which was ignored.
As the first good .quiltrc has been manually added after our previous 
exchange, things were working despite my bad script.
Instead, on the second platform test, only the unexpected .quilt.

Sorry for the mistake and thanks again for your help: it made me go 
forward.

Cheers,
Patrick

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: 2026-01-23 11:06:47 +0100
 From: Patrick Cardona <patrick.cardona at ik.me>
Subject: Re: Poppler-kit: poppler-splash missing

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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