Cannot build pdftk for F9

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Mon May 26 18:48:29 UTC 2008


On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote:
>> There's actually now no reason it can't be added back into Fedora. The
>> issue was the licensing of iText, on which pdftk depends. iText was
>> pulled from the fedora repos after F-7, but could now be re-added, as
>> long as an up to date version was packaged, and then pdftk could be
>> added back to the Fedora repo.
>
> Now there's a bit of good news.
>
>> It just needs someone to do the work.
>
> The most logical person to handle this would be whoever did it up until it was
> removed before as he/she obviously has both the experience and knowledge
> necessary to do the job, and had sufficient interest in it as well.
>
> Who would that be, and has that person been approached?

Seems to be Jochen Schmitt:

http://marc.info/?l=fedora-devel-java-list&m=117681912704047&w=2

Paul




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