On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 11:07:06AM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote:
> Package: oregano
> Version: 0.40.0-3
> Severity: grave
> Tags: upstream
> Justification: renders package unusable

> Due to an incompatibility problem with the current libcairo, the plot
> window in Oregano causes a total freeze of the program.

> This is to say, you are not able to simulate any circuit, because the
> program freezes when reaching the plot part.  Therefore the program is
> practically useless (you can draw a circuit and generate the netlist, but
> not simulate it).

> The bug is actually in the cairo library, but the buggy function has been 
> dropped in the CVS version, and there's noone wishing to fix the old one.

> Upstream is already aware of the problem and is now trying to find a
> workaround.

Note that the libcairo maintainer has asked for libcairo to *not* be
included with sarge; that would suggest that dropping this package from the
release is the most likely solution for sarge.

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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