Control: tags -1 confirmed
On Sun, 2023-09-24 at 22:27 +1000, Hugh McMaster wrote:
> Control: tags -1 -moreinfo
>
> Hi Adam,
>
> On Sun, 24 Sept 2023 at 05:53, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > Control: tags -1 moreinfo
> >
> > On Fri, 2023-09-22 at 22:16 +1000, Hugh McMaster wrote:
> > > FreeType 2.12.1 shipped with experimental COLRv1 support enabled.
> > > This was
> > > unintentional, as the implementation shipped in this release was
> > > incomplete and
> > > incompatible with the final COLRv1 API.
[...]
> > Do we know if any applications shipped in bookworm attempt to use
> > this
> > partial API? If so, do we know how they'll handle the change?
>
> The API function call appears in several packages that include
> internal copies of FreeType: openjdk-{11, 19, 20} and godot
> 3.5.2-stable-2. However, none of them call PUT_COLOR_LAYERS_V1() to
> access the API.
>
> I doubt many people know the COLRv1 API is in FreeType 2.12.1, as the
> API is not mentioned in the release notes for that version. In saying
> that, upstream recommends disabling the COLRv1 API.
OK, thanks.
Please go ahead.
Regards,
Adam
