Forking ebook-tools

Nate Graham nate at kde.org
Sun Nov 8 18:59:52 GMT 2026


+1, makes sense to me.

Nate



On 11/8/26 11:33 AM, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> I talked about this in Akademy to a few of you already but mentioning it here
> in case someone has comments/objections.
> 
> We use ebook-tools in both kfilemetadata and okular.
> 
> Looking at archlinux dependencies we are the only people using ebook-tools.
> 
> ebook-tools is unmaintained since more than a decade.
> 
> ebook-tools is very crashing as found by oss-fuzz.
> 
> For all the reasons above I have forked ebook-tools at
> https://invent.kde.org/aacid/ebook-tools
> 
> I will be asking for it to move into a non-user-namespace (graphics?
> libraries?) on Wednesday 11 and make a new release (keeping the same name)
> soon after that.
> 
> Cheers,
>    Albert
> 
> 



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