[SailfishDevel] How to update Poppler ?

Mohammed Hassan mohammed.hassan at jolla.com
Wed Sep 9 13:11:24 UTC 2015


On Wed, 9 Sep 2015 15:05:21 +0200
Damien Caliste <dcaliste at free.fr> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>    I've asked earlier this year this same question :
> https://lists.sailfishos.org/pipermail/devel/2015-March/005906.html
> that is related to this crash reported in TJC :
> https://together.jolla.com/question/22721/some-pdfs-crash-documents/
> 
> and following the advice from Tortoisedoc who kindly answered at that
> time, I've finally gave a look to mer repository :
> https://git.merproject.org/mer-core/poppler/tree/master
> 
> Sadly, it seems that Poppler used in SFOS is not the one in MER (phone
> says having 0.24.0-1.2.7). So I may ask my question again : how to
> contribute to Poppler for SFOS ?

It's the one from nemo:
https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/poppler.git

> Side question (to MER mailing list) : would it be wise to push a more
> recent version to MER, currently Debian is using 0.26.5 for instance,
> or do you prefer to receive a patch to the current version ?

I have no idea why we have 2 packages in nemo and mer. I'd personally
use the one in nemo since it's the one used by SFOS.

Cheers,


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