Hi everyone,
I intend to do a mass bug filing against all packages that use freetype-config
and/or freetype.m4,
as these APIs will be removed from libfreetype6-dev in the next maintainer
release. This is a
Debian-specific change.
Freetype-config has been considered deprecated for several years [1]. Although
it is suitable
for compiling for the native architecture (i.e. host = build), it cannot handle
cross-compiling.
See, for example [1], [2] and [3].
Freetype-config also acts as a wrapper for pkg-config, if that package is
installed. However,
as explained in [2] and [3], this does not help with cross-compiling, because
"pkg-config
must be qualified with the GNU triplet of the package architecture" in order to
output
the correct library paths.
I asked for freetype-config to be removed in [4] to allow libfreetype6-dev to
become
Multi-Arch: same. Five months later, I compromised and patched freetype-config
to
remove the hard-coded libdir paths causing the multi-arch file conflict.
A separate change (build-depending on pkg-config) fixed [5], but caused
additional
bugs when libfreetype6-dev is installed for foreign architectures only (see [2]
and [3]).
In these bugs, freetype-config was calling pkg-config for the native
architecture.
Following discussions in [3] and further investigation, the decision was made
to
remove freetype-config and freetype.m4 to better support multi-arch usage.
With this in mind, I removed freetype-config and built all reverse
build-dependencies. I have also searched codesearch.debian.net for use of
AC_CHECK_FT2 in configure.ac and configure.in. (Thanks to Simon McVittie
for the suggestion.)
A list of affected source packages is attached. 36 packages FTBFS without
freetype-config. Another 25 compile, but warn that freetype was not detected.
26 of the 61 packages already use pkg-config to detect other libraries,
so updating those packages to detect freetype2 using pkg-config is
straightforward.
The proposed wording for the bug reports reads:
--------
Dear Maintainer,
The next release of libfreetype6-dev will *not* ship freetype-config or
or freetype2.m4. This is a Debian-specific change.
Please use pkg-config to detect the freetype2 headers and libraries.
If this bug is not resolved prior to the release of the next version of
libfreetype6-dev, your package may FTBFS.
Thank you
--------
I realise removing freetype-config may not be popular. However,
the long-term benefits will outweigh any short-term inconvenience.
--
Hugh McMaster
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=642354
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=871470
[3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=886461
[4] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=870618
[5] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=885324
List of packages affected by the removal of freetype-config:
D Haley <[email protected]>
3depict (U)
Debian Science Maintainers <[email protected]>
3depict
Barry deFreese <[email protected]>
adonthell (U)
Debian Games Team <[email protected]>
adonthell
Robert Luberda <[email protected]>
afterstep
Barry deFreese <[email protected]>
asc (U)
Bartosz Fenski <[email protected]>
asc (U)
Debian Games Team <[email protected]>
asc
Markus Koschany <[email protected]>
asc (U)
Sam Hocevar <[email protected]>
asc (U)
Barry deFreese <[email protected]>
brutalchess (U)
Debian Games Team <[email protected]>
brutalchess
Vincent Legout <[email protected]>
brutalchess (U)
Debian OCaml Maintainers <[email protected]>
camlimages
Mehdi Dogguy <[email protected]>
camlimages (U)
Ralf Treinen <[email protected]>
camlimages (U)
Debian Games Team <[email protected]>
cube2font
Martin Erik Werner <[email protected]>
cube2font (U)
Debian QA Group <[email protected]>
dia
Marc Leeman <[email protected]>
dvdauthor
OHURA Makoto <[email protected]>
dvi2ps
Varun Hiremath <[email protected]>
dvipng
Barry deFreese <[email protected]>
fenix-plugins (U)
Debian Games Team <[email protected]>
fenix-plugins
Miriam Ruiz <[email protected]>
fenix-plugins (U)
Peter Pentchev <[email protected]>
fenix-plugins (U)
Michele Martone <[email protected]>
fim
Rafael Laboissiere <[email protected]>
fim (U)
Aaron M. Ucko <[email protected]>
fltk1.1
Debian Games Team <[email protected]>
foobillardplus
Markus Koschany <[email protected]>
foobillardplus (U)
Sam Hocevar <[email protected]>
ftgl
Jaimos Skriletz <[email protected]>
fvwm
Giacomo Catenazzi <[email protected]>
g15composer
Ari Pollak <[email protected]>
gimp
Jordi Mallach <[email protected]>
gimp (U)
Debian GNUstep maintainers <[email protected]>
gnustep-back
Eric Heintzmann <[email protected]>
gnustep-back (U)
Gürkan Myczko <[email protected]>
gnustep-back (U)
Yavor Doganov <[email protected]>
gnustep-back (U)
Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <[email protected]>
graphicsmagick
Colin Watson <[email protected]>
grub2 (U)
Felix Zielcke <[email protected]>
grub2 (U)
GRUB Maintainers <[email protected]>
grub2
Ian Campbell <[email protected]>
grub2 (U)
Jordi Mallach <[email protected]>
grub2 (U)
Debian Multimedia Maintainers
<[email protected]>
inkscape
Matteo F. Vescovi <[email protected]>
inkscape (U)
Mattia Rizzolo <[email protected]>
inkscape (U)
Dominique Dumont <[email protected]>
lcdproc
Giacomo Catenazzi <[email protected]>
libg15render
Harshula Jayasuriya <[email protected]>
libotf
Debian SDL packages maintainers <[email protected]>
libsdl-sge
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]>
libsdl-sge (U)
Debian SDL packages maintainers <[email protected]>
libsdl2-ttf
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]>
libsdl2-ttf (U)
Debian QA Group <[email protected]>
libwmf
Debian freesmartphone.org Team <[email protected]>
literki
Timo Jyrinki <[email protected]>
literki (U)
Harshula Jayasuriya <[email protected]>
m17n-lib
Bas Couwenberg <[email protected]>
mapnik (U)
David Paleino <[email protected]>
mapnik (U)
Debian GIS Project <[email protected]>
mapnik
Francesco Paolo Lovergine <[email protected]>
mapnik (U)
Jérémy Lal <[email protected]>
mapnik (U)
Debian GNUstep maintainers <[email protected]>
mknfonts.tool
Yavor Doganov <[email protected]>
mknfonts.tool (U)
Graham Inggs <[email protected]>
motif
Paul Gevers <[email protected]>
motif (U)
A Mennucc1 <[email protected]>
mplayer (U)
Debian Multimedia Maintainers
<[email protected]>
mplayer
Miguel A. Colón Vélez <[email protected]>
mplayer (U)
Reinhard Tartler <[email protected]>
mplayer (U)
Aaron M. Ucko <[email protected]>
ncbi-blast+ (U)
Andreas Tille <[email protected]>
ncbi-blast+ (U)
Debian Med Packaging Team <[email protected]>
ncbi-blast+
Olivier Sallou <[email protected]>
ncbi-blast+ (U)
Bas Wijnen <[email protected]>
openmsx
Alberto Luaces Fernández <[email protected]>
openscenegraph (U)
Loic Dachary (OuoU) <[email protected]>
openscenegraph
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]>
openscenegraph (U)
Ola Lundqvist <[email protected]>
openscenegraph (U)
Miriam Ruiz <[email protected]>
otf2bdf
Emfox Zhou <[email protected]>
pcmanx-gtk2
Debian PHP Maintainers <[email protected]>
php7.0
Lior Kaplan <[email protected]>
php7.0 (U)
OndÅej Surý <[email protected]>
php7.0 (U)
Debian PHP Maintainers <[email protected]>
php7.1
Lior Kaplan <[email protected]>
php7.1 (U)
OndÅej Surý <[email protected]>
php7.1 (U)
A Mennucc1 <[email protected]>
pygame (U)
Debian Python Modules Team <[email protected]>
pygame
Dominik George <[email protected]>
pygame (U)
Ed Boraas <[email protected]>
pygame (U)
Vincent Cheng <[email protected]>
pygame (U)
Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]>
rgl
Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) <[email protected]>
rlvm
Debian Science Team <[email protected]>
sagemath
Jerome Benoit <[email protected]>
sagemath (U)
Julien Puydt <[email protected]>
sagemath (U)
Tobias Hansen <[email protected]>
sagemath (U)
Ximin Luo <[email protected]>
sagemath (U)
Bruno "Fuddl" Kleinert <[email protected]>
scorched3d (U)
Debian Games Team <[email protected]>
scorched3d
Phil Morrell <[email protected]>
scorched3d (U)
Reinhard Tartler <[email protected]>
scorched3d (U)
Stephen M. Webb <[email protected]>
scorched3d (U)
David Weinehall <[email protected]>
scummvm (U)
Debian Games Team <[email protected]>
scummvm
Dmitry Smirnov <[email protected]>
scummvm (U)
Moritz Muehlenhoff <[email protected]>
scummvm (U)
Debian Games Team <[email protected]>
scummvm-tools
Stephen Kitt <[email protected]>
scummvm-tools (U)
Debian SDL packages maintainers <[email protected]>
sdl-ttf2.0
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]>
sdl-ttf2.0 (U)
Debian Games Team <[email protected]>
teeworlds
Felix Geyer <[email protected]>
teeworlds (U)
Jack Coulter <[email protected]>
teeworlds (U)
Debian TeX Maintainers <[email protected]>
texlive-bin
Norbert Preining <[email protected]>
texlive-bin (U)
Olly Betts <[email protected]>
therion (U)
Wookey <[email protected]>
therion
Debian Fonts Task Force <[email protected]>
ttfautohint (U)
Gürkan Myczko <[email protected]>
ttfautohint
Debian Games Team <[email protected]>
tuxpuck
Markus Koschany <[email protected]>
tuxpuck (U)
Debian QA Group <[email protected]>
tvtime
Youhei SASAKI <[email protected]>
xdvik-ja
Joachim Wiedorn <[email protected]>
xfe
Daniel Leidert (dale) <[email protected]>
xmlroff (U)
Debian XML/SGML Group <[email protected]>
xmlroff
W. Martin Borgert <[email protected]>
xmlroff (U)
Steve McIntyre <[email protected]>
xplanet
Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) <[email protected]>
xsystem35
