[Python-modules-team] Bug#593574: upstream changes

[Konstantinos Poulios]

This is one of the problems that have been fixed upstream:

https://github.com/mfenniak/pyPdf/commits/trunk

Even if there is no official release, I think it would be a nice idea
to pull all recent changes from the upstream git repo into debian.

I am developing PDF Shuffler and I believe that the current
python-pypdf package 1.12-3 in debian based distributions is very
unstable. I have received a lot of bug reports concerning pypdf:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?limit=25&func=&group_id=235357&atid=1095819&assignee=&status=&category=&artgroup=&keyword=&submitter=&artifact_id=&assignee=&status=&category=1556045&artgroup=&submitter=&keyword=&artifact_id=&submit=Filter

Many of them, like:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=618881

are already fixed in the development version of pypdf.

I have an upgraded package for Ubuntu including the latest git version
of pypdf here:

https://launchpad.net/~logari81/+archive/ppa/

and it has proved itself much more stable than the current 1.12-3.

Best regards

Kostas


P.S. people having problems with pdfshuffler will use pdfmod which is
a mono based application. Unfortunately pdf manipulation in python is
not as stable and rich of features as in mono. Please help improving
this situation a bit by adopting the fixes in pypdf that are already
available.