Re: Updating graphics/girara and zathura* packages

[Yorick Hardy <yorickhardy%gmail.com@localhost>]

Dear Dave,

On 2026-03-02, David H. Gutteridge wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Mar 2026 at 11:48:19 +0200, Yorick Hardy wrote:
> > Dear Pkgsrc developers,
> >
> > Our girara and zathura packages are a bit out of date, and zathura-
> pdf-mupdf
> > currently fails to open pdf files (for me) because of some missing
> symbols
> > in the plugin (from libbrotlienc).
> >
> > The attached patches attempt to bring all of these packages up to
> date,
> > and I have (minimally) tested that each plugin can view a file of the
> > type it is supposed to support.
> >
> > One notable change is that girara no longer depends on gtk3, this
> dependency
> > is pushed to zathura (which already depended on gtk3).
> >
> > Any opinions on updating these packages (now/later)?
> > [...]
> 
> girara also had an SO major bump, so that means its ABI_DEPENDS
> should reflect that in buildlinking. I'm not sure if its API
> also changed in backwards-incompatible ways? I just did a quick pass
> through and tweaked the buildlink3.mk files for girara and zathura.
> (Also not sure if there are zathura changes that would create ABI
> instability?) (I did compile test my changes.)
> 
> (The DESCR for girara also seems perhaps out of date now it
> doesn't use GTK anymore, though I see the upstream doesn't seem to
> have changed their blurb yet.)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dave

Thanks for catching that, yes (I also checked girara's page, but
as you wrote: it still mentions GTK).

Zathura does not mention API changes in the changelog, but I seem
to remember having some trouble trying to update plugins only, so
it may be safer just to assume that the switch to date-versioning
also needs buildlink3.mk updates.

-- 
Kind regards,

Yorick Hardy