Poppler trouble on debian 13 trixie

[gbWilly <gbWilly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I've been building gambas3 on trixie (debian 13) lately because it will go stable somewhere this summer/autumn. In between my last and current build poppler has been updated, so now gb.pdf will not meet dependencies anymore.

I had to build gambas 3.20.2 with pdf disabled to make it work. This seems to be a reoccurring problem with the poppler library (see https://gitlab.com/gambas/gambas/-/commit/6caed80f3fd20396135d01034bf4fb206f30b67f)

Now this trouble will not last as according to their page (https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTrixie) today the 'Transistion and Toolchain freeze has started', in a month from now the soft freeze will start and a month later the hard freeze. Each stage means it wil be harder to get new stuff into debian repository, so the poppler nightmare on debain trixie will come to an end.

I guess some other cutting edge distro's might experience likewise problems. I can't image how you run gb.pdf on a rolling release, must be hell ;-)

Below a screen of the version currently on trixie

I will test master version when it get's fixed.

On a side node, I dicovered that libncurses5-dev is no longer on trixie, instead libncurses-dev is used. On debian 11, 12 and ubuntu 20.04, 22.04 and 24.04 we use libncurses5-dev for recipe, but this turns out to be a transitional package (old libs) for libncruses-dev. I dropped a merge request with these changes to the debian osb recipe template and the git.yml file

gbWilly

Gambas3 for Debian/Ubuntu

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