[Python-modules-team] Bug#892436: pygame: Please use 'pkg-config' to find FreeType 2

2018-04-03 Thread Hugh McMaster
Hi René, Thanks for looking on this bug. On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 11:19:20 +0200, René Dudfield wrote: > I wonder if you know how portable pkg-config is for this? > > Will using pkg-config work for getting config on older versions of Debian? > > Or will we have to try and use both of the scripts?

[Python-modules-team] Bug#892436: pygame: Please use 'pkg-config' to find FreeType 2

2018-03-09 Thread hugh . mcmaster
Source: pygame Severity: important Dear Maintainer, The next release of libfreetype6-dev will *not* ship `freetype-config', as the script has now been deprecated in favour of `pkg-config'. This is an upstream change: "Use of the `freetype-config' script to get compilation and linking options