Comment 50 for bug 669211

> Maybe it would be possible to ship libpoppler5 specifically for
> xpdf as a legacy version?

yes, that would certainly work, but someone would actually need to volunteer to do that.

> Reverting to an old version of poppler in general is certainly
> not an option, e.g. epdfview and most importantly evince as
> the default pdf viewer work with the most recent version (and
> many would be unhappy if the annotation capabilities would
> be removed again ;)).

my point was not to suggest going backwards, but to be more mindful when going forward.