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Re: Integration of the DFB backend into current GTK+ 2.8.17 sources



Sven Luther wrote:
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 07:58:00PM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:

Sven Luther wrote:

On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 07:16:53PM +0300, Eddy Petrişor wrote:


On 5/26/06, Attilio Fiandrotti <fiandro@tiscali.it> wrote:


Josselin Mouette wrote:


I support this patch requires newer directfb and cairo packages, are
these packages available somewhere?

DirectFB 0.9.24 is already packaged as binary udeb, reular deb and
development dev packaged.
Right now, cairo is the real problem: currently its official maintainer,
dave beckett is busy and i doubt he'll be able to provide us a binary
deb compiled against DFB 0.9.24.

Is this case fit for a binnmu for cairo? does it only need to be built
against the new DFB, or does it need some updates?


I have not looked, but my guess is that it needs some modifications to produce the DFB-friendly packages. Unless cairo can be built with the dfb support and still work for the other targets ?

i just mailed dave beckett, maintainer of libcairo2, to ask him if he
can provide us a DFB version of this libray.


Current version of libcairo2 in unstable is 1.0.4, but the gtk-dfb pahge you
mentioned says :

  Next, get cairo >= 1.1.6 from and build it with the DFB backend enabled:

And indeed, i didn't find any DFB related stuff in the current cairo version
in unstable.

You're right: GTK 2.8.17 requires only cairo >= 0.9.2, but DFB backend became officially part of cairo starting from version 1.1.2 (first official release of 1.1.x series). The only reasonable option i see to updating official cairo to >= 1.1.2 in unstable is maintaining custom 1.1.6 source package with DFB backed enabled, until cairo 1.1.x enters unstable.

Attilio



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