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pdf2swf missing from swftools 0.9.2 for ubuntu 12.10

Bug #1086220 reported by Paul Hamilton

This bug report was converted into a question: question #223922: pdf2swf missing from swftools 0.9.2 for ubuntu 12.10.

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Bug Description

The pdf2swf binary is missing from swftools 0.9.2. Why is this binary missing?

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in swftools (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Bryan Fullerton (fehwalker)
Changed in swftools (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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Bryan Fullerton (fehwalker) wrote :

The pdf2swf command is not supported because it relies on xpdf library code, which has a history of security issues.

The Debian upstream package had entirely removed the swftools package for a while, until it was repackaged to not include pdf2swf, which is what we see now in Ubuntu.

Most likely it will remain this way unless/until the swftools folks rewrite their software to use a different PDF library.

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