Suggestion to bump the minimum poppler version ?

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Mon Aug 25 21:55:24 BST 2025


El dilluns, 25 d’agost del 2025, a les 14:46:14 (Hora d’estiu d’Europa 
central), Sune Stolborg Vuorela va escriure:
> Hi
> 
> I wonder if we should consider bumping the minimum poppler version to well.
> maybe 24.02 or 24.08 - but I'm open to other considerations as well.
> 
> We currently require a december '23 pre-release of KDE Frameworks 6 and a Qt
> 6.6 from october '23.
> 
> We currently require poppler 22.02.0.
> 
> I do like that other developers can build just Okular without having to
> build poppler, KF6 and Qt6 so I'm not suggesting bumping it that much.
> 
> The first ubuntu release with KDE Frameworks is their 24.10 release and that
> one has poppler 24.08 and qt6.6. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ships with Poppler 24.02,
> but Qt 6.4.
> 
> The first Debian Stable release with KDE Frameworks has poppler 25.03.
> 
> The closest to a opensuse leap 15.6 contains poppler 24.03, Qt 6.6 and no
> KDE Frameworks
> 
> I'm not sure which exact distro baseline we should target, but I'm tempted
> to suggest to bump to 24.08. If you already need to compile Qt and KDE
> Frameworks, then also tacking on Poppler to that is fairly minimal
> requirement wise.

Our guideline has always been "the last Ubuntu LTS should be able to build 
Okular without building any dependency" (and give a few months between the 
release of the last LTS to make the switch).

Unfortunately we are in a weird scenario in that there is no current Ubuntu 
LTS that can build Okular.

Personally I'm fine increasing the requirements to what we have in CI now, 
i.e. Ubuntu >= 24.10

Cheers,
  Albert



> 
> /Sune






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