pdftk

[Paul Allen Newell]

On 12/10/2014 04:07 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 18:55:10 -0500 Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 05:51:59PM -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>>>>> It would be good if someone who could pick it up w/o the issues that
>>>>> Fedora had would do it -- pdftk was a good package and will be
>>>>> missed. Given that Fedora isn't going to continue, I understand it
>>>>> is a bit useless to make the comment here. But hopefully senior folk
>>>>> in Fedora can give a push for pdftk to be "somewhere" within the
>>>>> Linux world that Fedora users can pick up (and also Centos).
>>>> We'd love to have it in Fedora. The itext5 author is really the person
>>>> to talk to here.
>>> Who would that be? Can this go to RPMfusion?
>> That's up to the RPMfusion people. But really, that's a lot less
>> ideal than having the software licensed in a truly open way so everyone
>> can benefit.
> Completely agree with this sentiment! But we can not do much here, I guess, except hope!
>
> Ranjan
>
>

Okay, I will hope (and in a positive manner as opposed to sarcastic) ... 
but part of that will be in the spirit of my original use of the word 
"hopeful" that someone with a "voice that matters" can give a push to 
either itext5 author or rpmfusion group that it would be a good thing.

Thanks for giving this thread a "let's hope" flavor rather than a "ain't 
gonna happen so forget it" brick wall

Paul