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.
(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.
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.
The disabled features are basic features of Evince (and of Gnome of which Evince is part). They shouldn't be disabled.