Re: Mass bug filing for the removal of freetype-config and freetype.m4

2018-02-06 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Hugh, On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 11:53:50AM +, Hugh McMaster wrote: > On Friday, 2 February 2018 11:14 PM, Simon McVittie wrote: > > On Thu, 01 Feb 2018 at 11:07:42 +, Hugh McMaster wrote: > >> Freetype-config has been considered deprecated for several years [1]. > > By us, or by

Re: Mass bug filing for the removal of freetype-config and freetype.m4

2018-02-05 Thread Hugh McMaster
Hi Simon, On Friday, 2 February 2018 11:14 PM, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Thu, 01 Feb 2018 at 11:07:42 +, Hugh McMaster wrote: >> Freetype-config has been considered deprecated for several years [1]. > > By us, or by upstream? Both. We considered freetype-config a deprecated legacy interface

Re: Mass bug filing for the removal of freetype-config and freetype.m4

2018-02-02 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 01 Feb 2018 at 11:07:42 +, Hugh McMaster wrote: > Freetype-config has been considered deprecated for several years [1]. By us, or by upstream? > With this in mind, I removed freetype-config and built all reverse > build-dependencies. I have also searched codesearch.debian.net for

Re: Mass bug filing for the removal of freetype-config and freetype.m4

2018-02-02 Thread Hugh McMaster
On Friday, 2 February 2018 12:15 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > Will you be asking upstream to remove it too? I hadn't considered that, but it might be a good idea. Why do you ask?

Re: Mass bug filing for the removal of freetype-config and freetype.m4

2018-02-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 7:07 PM, Hugh McMaster wrote: > This is a Debian-specific change. Will you be asking upstream to remove it too? -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Mass bug filing for the removal of freetype-config and freetype.m4

2018-02-01 Thread Hugh McMaster
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