Bug 906121

Summary: RFE: evince-gtk: a build of evince without GNOME dependencies
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt>
Component: evinceAssignee: Marek Kašík <mkasik>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Michal Schmidt 2013-01-30 22:07:44 UTC 
I maintain the epdfview package, which is a light-weight PDF viewer based on poppler and gtk. Unfortunately its upstream has gone inactive and non-responsive, so I'd like to remove epdfview from Fedora. I would like to have some other PDF viewer Obsolete epdfview.

A natural upgrade path from epdfview would be to a light-weight build of evince.

Inspiration could be taken from Debian, where the "evince" source package builds the sources twice. The full-features binary package is called "evince", and a light-weight binary package is called "evince-gtk". In Debian the full-featured build is configured with:
DEB_CONFIGURE_EXTRA_FLAGS := --disable-scrollkeeper \
			--enable-gtk-doc \
			--enable-djvu \
			--enable-dvi \
			--enable-t1lib \
			--enable-xps \
			--enable-comics \
			--enable-introspection
and the light-weight build with:
			$(DEB_CONFIGURE_EXTRA_FLAGS) \
			--without-keyring \
			--disable-nautilus \
			--disable-introspection \
			--disable-gtk-doc \
(See the "rules" file inside of http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/evince/evince_3.4.0-3.1.debian.tar.gz)

I would like to see a similar build of evince in Fedora (either called "evince-gtk" for similarity with Debian, or under some other name if you don't like this one) and have it Obsolete the last build of epdfview.

Afterwards, I will retire epdfview.
Comment 1 Michal Schmidt 2013-02-14 10:07:31 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> I maintain the epdfview package, which is a light-weight PDF viewer based on
> poppler and gtk. Unfortunately its upstream has gone inactive and
> non-responsive,

Jordi Fita (the upstream developer of epdfview) has finally responded to me. He fully supports the idea of removing epdfview and he recommends evince-gtk as a good replacement.
Comment 2 Paul Franklin (RHlists) 2013-06-04 22:55:11 UTC 
Is anything happening with this request?  I am using epdfview
in Fedora 18 and if it is going away in Fedora 19 is this going
to replace it?  If so, should I be looking elsewhere for proof
or indications of that?  Thanks.
Comment 3 Marek Kašík 2016-01-06 10:41:46 UTC 
The disabled features are basic features of Evince (and of Gnome of which Evince is part). They shouldn't be disabled.