Christoffer Holmstedt:
> The annotations are not visible in evince but if
> there are other PDF readers that support this I see no reason why
> acroread should stay if it's already EOL.
Yes, AcroRead is here mainly to support
some rare & proprietary Adobe PDF extensions,
e. g. look at bug #944953 (definitely a curious one).
Christoffer Holmstedt:
> The annotations are not visible in evince but if
> there are other PDF readers that support this I see no reason why
> acroread should stay if it's already EOL.
Yes, AcroRead is here mainly to support
some rare & proprietary Adobe PDF extensions,
e. g. look at bug #944953 (definitely a curious one).