XPost: linux.debian.devel.release

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Control: affects -1 + src:evince
User: [email protected]
Usertags: unblock

[ Reason ]

- New upstream bugfix release
- Fix a high-visibility bug in presentation mode found while testing the
new release (it is not a regression, trixie has the bug too)

[ Impact ]

Several bug fixes. Probably the highest-impact is that presentation mode
had incorrect scaling on HighDPI devices, due to a now-redundant
workaround for a GTK bug that was subsequently fixed (#1093497).

While verifying the fix for #1093497 I found #1109381, a high-visibility
issue with presentation mode: swapping from normal view to presentation
mode often leaves an unresponsive copy of the menu "stuck" on the
screen", which would be an embarrassingly visible display issue if I was actually giving a presentation.

[ Tests ]

Manually tested with some simple PDF files. I can reproduce #1093497
with trixie's evince on a device where GNOME defaults to 2x pixel ratio
(Lenovo X1 Carbon, 5th gen) and it is fixed in the proposed version.

[ Risks ]

Key package, default document viewer for our default desktop environment
(it is likely to be replaced with Papers in forky, but that came too
late for trixie).

I am not a primary maintainer of this package, I'm only filling in for
other team members who have less time available.

The changes that check for integer overflow in memory allocation sizes
are actually entirely redundant because g_new0() does an equivalent
check. I discussed this with upstream and we agree the change is
harmless; they are probably going to revert it, but it isn't seen as
urgent to do so.

All other changes are targeted and seem proportionate to the problems that
they fix. The package builds shared libraries, but not many other
packages use them (only denemo, gnome-sushi and phosh-plugins) and the
changes that touch library code in libdocument/ and libview/ are
particularly narrowly-targeted.

The fix for #1109381 comes from an upstream maintainer, but has not been reviewed or merged, and seems more like a workaround than a real
solution; unfortunately I don't understand the root cause. It does help
a lot, though. In my testing, the change fully fixes presentation mode,
but does not fully fix fullscreen mode, only making the symptom less
likely there. However, in fullscreen mode it can be addressed by
reopening and closing the menu.

[ Checklist ]

[x] all changes are documented in the d/changelog
[x] I reviewed all changes and I approve them
[x] attach debdiff against the package in testing
(filtered to exclude translations and patches; the actual changes
made by the patches are present in the diff)

unblock evince/48.1-2

debdiff *.dsc | filterdiff -p1 -x'help/*/*.po' -x'po/*.po' -x'debian/patches/*.patch'

diff -Nru evince-48.0/data/org.gnome.Evince.metainfo.xml.in evince-48.1/data/org.gnome.Evince.metainfo.xml.in
--- evince-48.0/data/org.gnome.Evince.metainfo.xml.in 2025-03-15 10:55:07.000000000 +0000
+++ evince-48.1/data/org.gnome.Evince.metainfo.xml.in 2025-06-29 19:43:42.000000000 +0100
@@ -46,8 +46,6 @@
<url type="donation">https://www.gnome.org/donate/</url>
<url type="vcs-browser">https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evince/</url>
<project_group>GNOME</project_group>
- <!-- developer_name tag deprecated with Appstream 1.0 -->
- <developer_name>The GNOME Project</developer_name>
<developer id="org.gnome">
<name>The GNOME Project</name>
</developer>
@@ -60,6 +58,17 @@
<translation type="gettext">evince</translation>
<content_rating type="oars-1.1" />
<releases>
+ <release version="48.1" type="stable" date="2025-06-16">
+ <description>
+ <p>Bug fixes and improvements.</p>
+ </description>
+ <issues>
+ <issue url="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evince/issues/1399">#1399</issue>
+ <issue url="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evince/iss