Comment 44 for bug 1061069

Tomas Chvatal,
regarding cups-filters:

As far as I see it fails to build for openSUSE_Factory
because we have poppler 0.23 there and in that poppler
version there have been changes in some poppler API
(in particular in poppler/Error.h regarding Goffset
in setErrorCallback) that require adaption of cups-filters.

But I have not at all any internal knowledge about poppler
so that I could be totally wrong here.

You may have a look at my preliminary attempts to try to fix it
in OBS home:jsmeix:branches:Printing cups-filters
(my current fix is still incomplete).

As far as I see there are no incompatible changes in poppler API
mentioned in poppler's ChangeLog.
Therefore I wonder if what cups-filters uses from poppler
is actually meant as public stable API from poppler?
Perhaps cups-filters uses private internal poppler API
that can change at any time as poppler upstream likes.
In this case cups-filters would need to get a major clean up
so that it only uses well known stable APIs.

But again - I have not at all any internal knowledge
about poppler so that this all is only blind guess.

I think we should get in contact with cups-filters upstream
(see the cups-filters README file regarding "Report bugs to")
to get the issue fixed properly and thoroughly together
with upstream.