pdfedit

[Orion Poplawski]

On 08/21/2011 10:19 AM, Thomas Spura wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 18:04:48 +0200
> Joachim Backes wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> in F15 I could install pdfedit by yum. Anybody knows when this will
>> be possible in F16?
>
> Hi Joachim,
>
> It won't be possible in the near future, because it's orphaned:
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/pdfedit
>
> Unless tremble or anyone else wants to maintain it, it won't be
> possible. (CC'ing tremble)
>
> The dead.package says this:
> "Upstream is essentially dead - gui stuck on qt3 and buggy"
>
> But the upstream url says, it was ported to qt4 and upstream still
> wored on it...
>
> Greetings,
>     Tom

Hpefully it gets completed.  I finally gave up maintaining it since nothing 
seemed to be happening for over a year and the ABRT reports kept coming in.  I 
would advise against reviving it until a Qt4 version is fully ready and tested.

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