[csw-maintainers] Upgrade problems??

Roger Håkansson hson at opencsw.org
Fri Apr 9 22:44:37 CEST 2010


On 2010-04-09 22:25, Philip Brown wrote:
> the proper way to do this, is to rework both the xpdf package, and
> poppler, to use CSWalternatives.
> NOT, to mark packages as "incompatible" with other current packages.
>
> Please note: maintainers of xpdf and poppler will have to work
> together, to agree which should be the "default" xpdf, if both
> packages are installed.

Regarding xpdf, there is no collision, its the utilities (pdftotext...) 
that collide, which was why I suggested to Benny that he also split them 
out to a separate package and we make them (poppler and xpdf_utils 
incompatible).



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