From: Alexander H. <ale...@gm...> - 2011-03-23 15:11:00
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 3/22/11 12:49 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > On 3/22/11 12:29 PM, Ingo Thies wrote: >> Hi Alexander and others, > >>> No, the problem exists on all 10.5 systems. Perhaps we need to cut the >>> maintainer's pay. Oh, wait, he's a volunteer, so he's doing this as his >>> time permits. > >> I didn't want to appear impatient, sorry if the post did to. I was just >> wondering why there were so few posts about that (the last I replied to >> were about a different problem with pdftk, as far as I remember). > >> I didn't yet encounter any problems with the previous pdftk version, so >> there is really no need to hurry. > >> Best wishes, > >> Ingo > > Not to worry: I overreacted a bit. > > Anyway, it sounds like the issues with pdftk-1.44 may not be easily > fixed for 10.4/intel and 10.5/intel, requiring a gcc which doesn't exist > yet: > > https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=27160801 > > I propose that the maintainer restore pdftk-1.41 for 10.5/intel and > 10.4/intel. > > I'm going to test out the powerpc fix in the message linked above on > 10.4/ and 10.5/powerpc. Following up: the powerpc fix from Jack (message URL above) does indeed appear to work on both 10.4/powerpc and 10.5/powerpc. I propose the following package description files: * Continue with the existing pdftk-10.6.info at version 1.44 for 10.6. * pdftk-powerpc.info at version 1.44 (slight modification to Jack's packaging). Since it's powerpc-only, it will be for 10.4 and 10.5 implicitly. * pdftk.info and pdftk.patch at version 1.41 to cover the remaining cases: 10.4/i386, 10.5/i386 and 10.5/x86_64. I've uploaded pdftk-powerpc.info, pdftk.info, and pdftk.patch to http://fink.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/fink/experimental/alexkhansen/3rdparty/finkinfo/ I can commit the changes if you'd like. - -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk2KDXoACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ9PowCeOo1ydlBy5SUkgmugWyutbS14 oboAn1vTe0qHIuD/bLDsvOCV6kFmwUQs =VYbM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |