I request permission to do the transition for poppler 26.07

Poppler bumps the soname with every monthly release. This is the
July 2026 release (libpoppler156 -> libpoppler162)

poppler 26.07.0-1 is in experimental, accepted and built on all release
architectures (except riscv64, which is still in the build queue)

The auto tracker is good:
https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-poppler.html

Ben file:

title = "poppler";
is_affected = .depends ~ "libpoppler156" | .depends ~ "libpoppler162";
is_good = .depends ~ "libpoppler162";
is_bad = .depends ~ "libpoppler156";
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Have you tested the rdeps against the new SONAME? Do they build fine? If not,
have you filed bugs against the rdeps?

Cheers,
Emilio

Hello!

 > Have you tested the rdeps against the new SONAME? Do they build fine?
If not, have you filed bugs against the rdeps?

Yes. I rebuilt all reverse dependencies against poppler 26.07.0 locally.
Some rebuilds are fine and only need binNMUs, but most fail to build not
because of the SONAME bump itself but because of upstream API changes in
poppler

I have filed bugs against every failing rdep and prepared patches for
all of them except scribus (I'm still working on it). The patches apply
and build against the new poppler now, but I made the patches
backward-compatible so they can be applied ahead of the transition.

Fixed already:
  #1142555 dia
  #1142590 popplerkit.framework
  #1142657 gambas3
  #1142729 openboard

Bug filed, patch attached, not yet uploaded:
  #1142561 ipe-tools
  #1142648 gdcm
  #1142653 xpdf
  #1142706 pdf2djvu
  #1143108 inkscape

Kind regards,
Nadzeya

Control: tags -1 confirmed

Please go ahead and bump the severity of the remaining bugs to serious.

Cheers,
Emilio

Thanks! I’m currently out of town, but I’ll make sure to get to that either at the end of this week or next week

Nadzeya