[opensuse-factory] Wish to have pdftk (back) in opensuse

Thomas Nielsen

7 Nov 2017 7 Nov '17

16:49

Hello I just again successfully used pdftk to manage pages in pdf files, and wonder why it is not to be found in the opensuse tw channels? I have forgot howto formally wish for a package to be included?? The product home page is here (rpm at the bottom of the page) https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-server/ and there is already a suse build here : https://software.opensuse.org/package/pdftk?search_term=pdftk Just to say, that there is no big architectural work to do to include it and to make it run on opensuse. Thomas

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Robert Munteanu

7 Nov 7 Nov

19:16

Hi Thomas, On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 6:49 PM, Thomas Nielsen wrote:

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I just again successfully used pdftk to manage pages in pdf files, and wonder why it is not to be found in the opensuse tw channels?

pdftk was intentionally removed, see discussion at https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2017-10/msg00295.html Robert -- http://robert.muntea.nu/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

Stefan Seyfried

19:19

Am 07.11.2017 um 20:16 schrieb Robert Munteanu:

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Hi Thomas,

On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 6:49 PM, Thomas Nielsen wrote:

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I just again successfully used pdftk to manage pages in pdf files, and wonder why it is not to be found in the opensuse tw channels?

pdftk was intentionally removed, see discussion at

"intentionally removed" is not the correct term IMHO :-), but we now just lack the tools to build it. -- Stefan Seyfried "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." -- Richard Feynman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

Robert Munteanu

19:25

On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 9:19 PM, Stefan Seyfried wrote:

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Am 07.11.2017 um 20:16 schrieb Robert Munteanu:

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Hi Thomas,

On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 6:49 PM, Thomas Nielsen wrote:

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I just again successfully used pdftk to manage pages in pdf files, and wonder why it is not to be found in the opensuse tw channels?

pdftk was intentionally removed, see discussion at

"intentionally removed" is not the correct term IMHO :-), but we now just lack the tools to build it.

Point taken :-) I just wanted to make it clear that it's not an accident, it was there before but can't be anymore. Robert -- http://robert.muntea.nu/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

Carlos E. R.

19:20

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 2017-11-07 at 21:16 +0200, Robert Munteanu wrote:

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Hi Thomas,

On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 6:49 PM, Thomas Nielsen wrote:

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I just again successfully used pdftk to manage pages in pdf files, and wonder why it is not to be found in the opensuse tw channels?

pdftk was intentionally removed, see discussion at

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2017-10/msg00295.html

I read that thread at the time and I saw no explanation. Just the fact that it was dropped. I have read comments from many people wanting it back. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAloCB48ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XYeQCffUSzJaOKHdwzSSBFcfgzFw79 8nMAnigaWJQUPm3cWyhEY08aJfYBGQm5 =xYx5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

Robert Munteanu

19:26

On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 9:20 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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On Tuesday, 2017-11-07 at 21:16 +0200, Robert Munteanu wrote:

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Hi Thomas,

On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 6:49 PM, Thomas Nielsen wrote:

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I just again successfully used pdftk to manage pages in pdf files, and wonder why it is not to be found in the opensuse tw channels?

pdftk was intentionally removed, see discussion at

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2017-10/msg00295.html

I read that thread at the time and I saw no explanation. Just the fact that it was dropped.

I have read comments from many people wanting it back.

My understanding is that the canonical explanation is at https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/532729 also linked from that thread. Anyone that uses pdftk might want to take a look at http://qpdf.sourceforge.net/ Robert -- http://robert.muntea.nu/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

Philip Tait

19:35

On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 9:26 AM, Robert Munteanu wrote:

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On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 9:20 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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On Tuesday, 2017-11-07 at 21:16 +0200, Robert Munteanu wrote:

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Hi Thomas,

On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 6:49 PM, Thomas Nielsen wrote:

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I just again successfully used pdftk to manage pages in pdf files, and wonder why it is not to be found in the opensuse tw channels?

pdftk was intentionally removed, see discussion at

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2017-10/msg00295.html

I read that thread at the time and I saw no explanation. Just the fact that it was dropped.

I have read comments from many people wanting it back.

My understanding is that the canonical explanation is at

https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/532729

also linked from that thread.

Anyone that uses pdftk might want to take a look at

http://qpdf.sourceforge.net/

I tried qpdf and found it a poor substitute - the CLI is much less usable. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

Carlos E. R.

19:36

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Content-ID: On Tuesday, 2017-11-07 at 21:26 +0200, Robert Munteanu wrote:

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On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 9:20 PM, Carlos E. R. <> wrote:

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On Tuesday, 2017-11-07 at 21:16 +0200, Robert Munteanu wrote:

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Hi Thomas,

On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 6:49 PM, Thomas Nielsen <> wrote:

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I just again successfully used pdftk to manage pages in pdf files, and wonder why it is not to be found in the opensuse tw channels?

pdftk was intentionally removed, see discussion at

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2017-10/msg00295.html

I read that thread at the time and I saw no explanation. Just the fact that it was dropped.

I have read comments from many people wanting it back.

My understanding is that the canonical explanation is at

https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/532729

also linked from that thread.

Thanks, but it is difficult to understand for the layman. I understand it only after reading the explanation from Stefan Seyfried in this thread.

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Anyone that uses pdftk might want to take a look at

http://qpdf.sourceforge.net/

Yes, I'm aware of that one, but I still have not evaluated equivalency. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAloCC1kACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XY6QCfTHRS9U96uf/t5ljZKC4Xjfm/ JiMAn0OdDF8MuqCziPMtIVi1a++0GkWt =tXYa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

Stefan Seyfried

19:18

Hi Thomas, Am 07.11.2017 um 17:49 schrieb Thomas Nielsen:

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I just again successfully used pdftk to manage pages in pdf files, and wonder why it is not to be found in the opensuse tw channels?

Because it got dropped recently after gcc7 update.

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I have forgot howto formally wish for a package to be included?? The product home page is here (rpm at the bottom of the page) https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-server/ and there is already a suse build here : https://software.opensuse.org/package/pdftk?search_term=pdftk Just to say, that there is no big architectural work to do to include it and to make it run on opensuse.

Yes there is. There is no gcj compiler to compile it available in Tumbleweed anymore. So you have several options: * persuade gcc upstream to revive gcj (probably not easy) * maintain old gcc6 for tumbleweed (also not easy) * port pdftk to pure java so that it can be built with java jdk (I don't know if that's feasible) -- Stefan Seyfried "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." -- Richard Feynman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

Carlos E. R.

19:27

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 2017-11-07 at 20:18 +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote:

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Am 07.11.2017 um 17:49 schrieb Thomas Nielsen:

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I just again successfully used pdftk to manage pages in pdf files, and wonder why it is not to be found in the opensuse tw channels?

Because it got dropped recently after gcc7 update.

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I have forgot howto formally wish for a package to be included?? The product home page is here (rpm at the bottom of the page) https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-server/ and there is already a suse build here : https://software.opensuse.org/package/pdftk?search_term=pdftk Just to say, that there is no big architectural work to do to include it and to make it run on opensuse.

Yes there is. There is no gcj compiler to compile it available in Tumbleweed anymore.

So you have several options: * persuade gcc upstream to revive gcj (probably not easy) * maintain old gcc6 for tumbleweed (also not easy) * port pdftk to pure java so that it can be built with java jdk (I don't know if that's feasible)

Thanks, this is the best explanation I have seen so far, but I still do not understand it all. What is gcj and why is it needed? My guess it that is is some kind of strange java compiler, not standard, so that code made for it will not run in standard java? And that java compiler is not maintained anymore? What is the upstream of the pdftk project going to do, nothing? Can we download pdftk from somewhere else, would that work? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAloCCREACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XOrgCeMAoKR+ZtGAgqvLThYUYIErrt W2YAniB6Eoiaw/wvwk2lwaS5znDQluJR =FFEN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

Jan Engelhardt

21:29

On Tuesday 2017-11-07 20:27, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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that code made for it will not run in standard java?

./pdftk/com/lowagie/text/pdf/SimpleXMLParser.java:84: error: package gnu.gcj.convert does not exist private static Class c3= gnu.gcj.convert.Input_ASCII.class; Without a rewrite, the answer is no.

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What is the upstream of the pdftk project going to do, nothing?

You have to ask upstream for that. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

Stefan Seyfried

8 Nov 8 Nov

05:36

Am 07.11.2017 um 20:27 schrieb Carlos E. R.:

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Can we download pdftk from somewhere else, would that work?

I have (for now) just locked the package, even though gcc-java package does not exist anymore, libgcj is still available. I *guess* (but have not tried) that installing libgcj48 and pdftk packages from Leap42.3 (and locking pdftk in zypper so that zypper dup does not remove it) will work for quite some time. -- Stefan Seyfried "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." -- Richard Feynman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

Carlos E. R.

11:19

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 2017-11-08 at 06:36 +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote:

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Am 07.11.2017 um 20:27 schrieb Carlos E. R.:

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Can we download pdftk from somewhere else, would that work?

I have (for now) just locked the package, even though gcc-java package does not exist anymore, libgcj is still available.

I *guess* (but have not tried) that installing libgcj48 and pdftk packages from Leap42.3 (and locking pdftk in zypper so that zypper dup does not remove it) will work for quite some time.

And might work for Leap 15.0 - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAloC6FAACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XiVQCeN1aRLrk1p7Pg1E9EYBzfczMj jT4AnjD9WEYJ9v1BgDA9KktRBK8N4MBD =2cTW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

Vojtěch Zeisek

12:32

Dne úterý 7. listopadu 2017 20:27:13 CET, Carlos E. R. napsal(a):

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On Tuesday, 2017-11-07 at 20:18 +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote:

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Am 07.11.2017 um 17:49 schrieb Thomas Nielsen:

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I just again successfully used pdftk to manage pages in pdf files, and wonder why it is not to be found in the opensuse tw channels?> Because it got dropped recently after gcc7 update.

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I have forgot howto formally wish for a package to be included?? The product home page is here (rpm at the bottom of the page) https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-server/ and there is already a suse build here : https://software.opensuse.org/package/pdftk?search_term=pdftk Just to say, that there is no big architectural work to do to include it and to make it run on opensuse.> Yes there is. There is no gcj compiler to compile it available in Tumbleweed anymore.

So you have several options: * persuade gcc upstream to revive gcj (probably not easy) * maintain old gcc6 for tumbleweed (also not easy) * port pdftk to pure java so that it can be built with java jdk (I don't know if that's feasible)

Thanks, this is the best explanation I have seen so far, but I still do not understand it all. What is gcj and why is it needed?

It is needed to compile it, not to run it...

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My guess it that is is some kind of strange java compiler, not standard, so that code made for it will not run in standard java? And that java compiler is not maintained anymore?

Yes, I think You understand it pretty well, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Compiler_for_Java In other words, this tool is going to die, and so that sooner or later all applications build with it...

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What is the upstream of the pdftk project going to do, nothing?

Ask at https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/ ?

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Can we download pdftk from somewhere else, would that work? -- Vojtěch Zeisek https://trapa.cz/

Carlos E. R.

14:30

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Dne úterý 7. listopadu 2017 20:27:13 CET, Carlos E. R. napsal(a):

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On Tuesday, 2017-11-07 at 20:18 +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote:

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Am 07.11.2017 um 17:49 schrieb Thomas Nielsen:

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What is the upstream of the pdftk project going to do, nothing?

Ask at https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/ ?

Done. But I think it would be better if the package maintainer did the asking, more weight. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAloDFR8ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9Xs0wCeMjTrUIAX4TWJoF6pNcK4eoy5 1poAnj0veFBJrE946bwRKk2orVUDVkMA =4PGl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Patrick Shanahan

14:43

* Carlos E. R. [11-08-17 09:33]:

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On Wednesday, 2017-11-08 at 13:32 +0100, Vojtěch Zeisek wrote:

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Dne úterý 7. listopadu 2017 20:27:13 CET, Carlos E. R. napsal(a):

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On Tuesday, 2017-11-07 at 20:18 +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote:

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Am 07.11.2017 um 17:49 schrieb Thomas Nielsen:

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What is the upstream of the pdftk project going to do, nothing?

Ask at https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/ ?

Done.

But I think it would be better if the package maintainer did the asking, more weight.

"if he cares" and quite possibly he does not. did you identify the "package maintainer" and ask him? changelog indicates latest changes submitted by seife+obs@b1-systems.com -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

Carlos E. R.

14 Nov 14 Nov

23:18

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 2017-11-08 at 15:30 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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On Wednesday, 2017-11-08 at 13:32 +0100, Vojtěch Zeisek wrote:

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Dne úterý 7. listopadu 2017 20:27:13 CET, Carlos E. R. napsal(a):

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On Tuesday, 2017-11-07 at 20:18 +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote:

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Am 07.11.2017 um 17:49 schrieb Thomas Nielsen:

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What is the upstream of the pdftk project going to do, nothing?

Ask at https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/ ?

Done.

No answer. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAloLecIACgkQtTMYHG2NR9V16gCfWbYSw+kzL1TfaJGBjKXNRFcF 2K4AoIPr3naAgGJwNkFuA007tUAlpH8P =4nWc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar

15 Nov 15 Nov

08:49

On Wed, 2017-11-15 at 00:18 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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On Wednesday, 2017-11-08 at 15:30 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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On Wednesday, 2017-11-08 at 13:32 +0100, Vojtěch Zeisek wrote:

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Dne úterý 7. listopadu 2017 20:27:13 CET, Carlos E. R. napsal(a):

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On Tuesday, 2017-11-07 at 20:18 +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote:

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Am 07.11.2017 um 17:49 schrieb Thomas Nielsen:

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What is the upstream of the pdftk project going to do, nothing?

Ask at https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/ ?

Done.

No answer.

Which envorces the reason to drop the package - if upstream is not willing to play with us, we won't build a distro around that package Cheers Dominique

Richard Biener

11:29

On Wed, 15 Nov 2017, Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar wrote:

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On Wed, 2017-11-15 at 00:18 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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On Wednesday, 2017-11-08 at 15:30 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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On Wednesday, 2017-11-08 at 13:32 +0100, Vojtěch Zeisek wrote:

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Dne úterý 7. listopadu 2017 20:27:13 CET, Carlos E. R. napsal(a):

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On Tuesday, 2017-11-07 at 20:18 +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote:

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Am 07.11.2017 um 17:49 schrieb Thomas Nielsen:

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What is the upstream of the pdftk project going to do, nothing?

Ask at https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/ ?

Done.

No answer.

Which envorces the reason to drop the package - if upstream is not willing to play with us, we won't build a distro around that package

pdftk authors choose to use internal G++ <-> Java interworking APIs and thus locked themselves in. 10 years ago nobody would have guessed we'll eventually drop Java support in GCC ... I expect it's going to be substantial work to "fix" pdftk. For cross-distro binary handling building pdftk with -findirect-dispatch would have been nice (applies to all packages that end up requiring libgcj.so.N). Richard.

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Cheers Dominique

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Jan Engelhardt

8 Nov 8 Nov

16:41

On Wednesday 2017-11-08 13:32, Vojtěch Zeisek wrote:

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Thanks, this is the best explanation I have seen so far, but I still do not understand it all. What is gcj and why is it needed?

It is needed to compile it, not to run it...

pdftk depends on libgcj48 to run. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

Bruno Friedmann

12:06

On mardi, 7 novembre 2017 17.49:57 h CET Thomas Nielsen wrote:

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Hello I just again successfully used pdftk to manage pages in pdf files, and wonder why it is not to be found in the opensuse tw channels? I have forgot howto formally wish for a package to be included?? The product home page is here (rpm at the bottom of the page) https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-server/ and there is already a suse build here : https://software.opensuse.org/package/pdftk?search_term=pdftk Just to say, that there is no big architectural work to do to include it and to make it run on opensuse. Thomas

There's similar tools offered by the poppler-tools package rpm -ql poppler-tools /usr/bin/pdfdetach /usr/bin/pdffonts /usr/bin/pdfimages /usr/bin/pdfinfo /usr/bin/pdfseparate /usr/bin/pdfsig /usr/bin/pdftocairo /usr/bin/pdftohtml /usr/bin/pdftoppm /usr/bin/pdftops /usr/bin/pdftotext /usr/bin/pdfunite Check if your workflow can integrate them instead of the soon dead pdftk. a Must have would be to have servicemenus for them ;-) -- Bruno Friedmann Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch Bareos Partner, openSUSE Member, fsfe fellowship GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 irc: tigerfoot -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

Dave Plater

12:22

On 08/11/2017 14:06, Bruno Friedmann wrote:

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On mardi, 7 novembre 2017 17.49:57 h CET Thomas Nielsen wrote:

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Hello I just again successfully used pdftk to manage pages in pdf files, and wonder why it is not to be found in the opensuse tw channels? I have forgot howto formally wish for a package to be included?? The product home page is here (rpm at the bottom of the page) https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-server/ and there is already a suse build here : https://software.opensuse.org/package/pdftk?search_term=pdftk Just to say, that there is no big architectural work to do to include it and to make it run on opensuse. Thomas

There's similar tools offered by the poppler-tools package

rpm -ql poppler-tools /usr/bin/pdfdetach /usr/bin/pdffonts /usr/bin/pdfimages /usr/bin/pdfinfo /usr/bin/pdfseparate /usr/bin/pdfsig /usr/bin/pdftocairo /usr/bin/pdftohtml /usr/bin/pdftoppm /usr/bin/pdftops /usr/bin/pdftotext /usr/bin/pdfunite

Check if your workflow can integrate them instead of the soon dead pdftk.

a Must have would be to have servicemenus for them ;-)

Tex also has a range of pdf tools - texlive-pdfjam-bin rpm -ql texlive-pdfjam-bin|grep bin /usr/bin/pdf180 /usr/bin/pdf270 /usr/bin/pdf90 /usr/bin/pdfbook /usr/bin/pdfflip /usr/bin/pdfjam /usr/bin/pdfjam-pocketmod /usr/bin/pdfjam-slides3up /usr/bin/pdfjam-slides6up /usr/bin/pdfjoin /usr/bin/pdfnup /usr/bin/pdfpun and more in other tex packages. Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

Olaf Hering

15 Nov 15 Nov

14:04

On Tue, Nov 07, Thomas Nielsen wrote:

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Just to say, that there is no big architectural work to do to include it and to make it run on opensuse.

Yes, it requires just gcc-6.x and some java-compat package for compilation. Both are moved from Tumbleweed to Packman. For short: 'zypper in pdftk' works since Monday. Olaf

AW

24 Nov 24 Nov

15:31

Am Mittwoch, 15. November 2017, 15:04:49 CET schrieb Olaf Hering:

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On Tue, Nov 07, Thomas Nielsen wrote:

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Just to say, that there is no big architectural work to do to include it and to make it run on opensuse. Yes, it requires just gcc-6.x and some java-compat package for compilation. Both are moved from Tumbleweed to Packman. For short: 'zypper in pdftk' works since Monday.

Olaf

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