Re: Poppler trouble on debian 13 trixie

[Benoît Minisini <benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 15/03/2025 à 23:28, gbWilly a écrit :
> 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 <https://gitlab.com/ 
> gambas/gambas/-/commit/6caed80f3fd20396135d01034bf4fb206f30b67f>)
>
> Now this trouble will not last as according to their page (https:// 
> wiki.debian.org/DebianTrixie <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 ;-)

This is why 'gb.pdf' is deprecated and replaced by 'gb.poppler' that 
should not have thse problems.

Regards,

--
Benoît Minisini.