[poppler] poppler-splash and poppler-cairo modules

[Albert Astals Cid]

El diumenge, 28 de gener de 2018, a les 10:30:46 CET, suzuki toshiya va 
escriure:
> Hi all,
> 
> I wish if I'm not misunderstanding the situation of poppler-splash
> and poppler-cairo modules.
> 
> By Albert's review to my patch restoring xxx-uninstalled.pc files,
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104390
> I found some discussion is needed for poppler-splash and poppler-cairo
> modules.
> 
> At present, normal installation of poppler installs poppler.pc,
> poppler-cpp.pc, poppler-glib.pc, poppler-qt5.pc. These modules are
> related with libpoppler, libpoppler-cpp, libpoppler-glib,
> libpoppler-qt5. This is easy to understand.
> 
> The normal installation also installs poppler-splash.pc and
> poppler-cairo.pc. This is not so easy to understand, because normal
> installation does not install libsplash or libpoppler-cairo.
> 
> Autotool building systems had once built libsplash.la and
> libpoppler-cairo.la for internal usage (e.g. libpoppler used
> libsplash, libpoppler-glib & pdftocairo used libpoppler-cairo).
> Even if they are built, they are never installed.
> 
> I'm not familiar with the historical change of cmake building
> system in poppler, but at present, libsplash and libpoppler-cairo
> are never built by cmake.
> 
> In my understanding, most Linux distributions have no packages
> including libpoppler-cairo and libsplash. But, most libpoppler-dev
> packages have poppler-cairo.pc and poppler-splash.pc.
> Also, the "private headers package" provide the headers installed
> by --enable-xpdf-headers; it includes libsplash headers, but
> nothing for libpoppler-cairo.
> 
> Except of the cases that the developers have building tree of the
> poppler, I'm afraid that they have been non-working status,
> because no packages provided the corresponding libraries (and no
> headers for libpoppler-cairo). I will dig the history around 2005
> when these pc files were incorporated into the official trunk, but
> I want to hear the maintainers feeling how to resolve it.
> 
> If non-working situation is longer than 5 years, removal of
> poppler-splash.pc and poppler-cairo.pc would be the solution?
> Or, should we have some switch to build libsplash and
> libpoppler-cairo?

I'm going to say kill them?

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Regards,
> mpsuzuki
> 
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