[referencer] problems on Ubuntu Gutsy

[Michael R. Head]

On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 09:49 +0100, John Spray wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 00:20 +0100, John Spray wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 00:59 +0200, Denis Pitzalis - Home wrote:
> > > Hi guys, nice application but looks like there are some problems with
> > > the alpha version of Ubuntu (7.10).
> > > I've installed referencer from the standard repository an, when I
> > > launch it from command line I get:
> > 
> > I've got in touch with an ubuntu person to see if they have any ideas
> > what's going on here, will post when more information is forthcoming.
> 
> I've had a helpful response.  It turns out that there was a problem
> that's been fixed in more recent version of glib, but referencer wasn't
> getting rebuilt against the fixed glib because it was breaking due to
> changes in poppler.  That's happening because the ubuntu package is the
> old 1.0.2 version which abused poppler a bit, which was fixed in 1.0.3.
> 
> So this gets fixed when the ubuntu package syncs with the latest
> referencer release.

Progress on the sync can be tracked here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/referencer/+bug/124366

> Cheers,
> John
> 
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