On Thursday 08 May 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > However, I would first like to know what the result was of your > > discussion with the cairo maintainers. IIRC you promised to contact > > them to see if they could do a revert. Please inform the rest of the > > team of such things! > > I was in touch with Sebastian Dröge <slomo@debian.org>, at > #gnome-debian IRC channel, but we couldn't talk in last days. Since > we're near of migration deadline I gave up at getting it reverted now > (mostly due the tests that it might involve) and will postpone it to > just after Beta 2 is out. > > Last time we talked, he spot that this was his prefered option if > upstream didn't come to a solution in near future. I'll mail to the > bug report with that information too. OK. When you follow up to the BR you should IMO: - make clear that we see this as a temporary workaround and that we still consider it a serious regression that should be fixed before Lenny - lower the severity of the BR to important on the assumption that only D-I actually cares about the directfb support - CC the RMs so they can unblock cairo Cheers, FJP
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