On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 04:55:46PM +0100, Loic Minier wrote: > I found references to freetype in 2.6 Gtk's source, but not in the 2.8 > series (except in gdk/linux-fb which isn't built for Debian AFAICT), > hence I'm closing the bug with the first upstream version we uploaded > to experimental without the freetype requirement.
> (It would be nice if you could double-check though.) Yep, 2.8.7 looks pretty clear, thanks. > BTW, the GNOME team is ready since a good while to try moving gtk 2.8 > to unstable, but postponed due to cairo being stuck behind freetype. I > really hope we can get gtk in the pipe ASAP, and if you think there's a > way to do so without waiting for the end of the multi-months freetype + > libstdc++ new transitions, that's be nice. :) So the concern, of course, is that gtk 2.8 brings a shlibs bump, and we don't want to break a bunch of stuff that's waiting on it. Well, cairo is *definitely* tied to the libfreetype transition, because it specifically depends on new features that weren't available in freetype 2.1.7; so if gtk 2.8 needs libcairo, then gtk 2.8 won't make it into testing until freetype is figured out. OTOH, gtk+2.0 already has to be uploaded *for* the freetype transition, then uploading gtk 2.8 at the same time as freetype gets sorted out seems like a good idea to me. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
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