Re: Request for a DFB version of libcairo2

[Attilio Fiandrotti <fiandro@tiscali.it>]

Dave Beckett wrote:
> Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
>
> > The graphical frontend to the debian-installer is now part of standard
> > daily builds and we're ready to switch to standard GTK+ and Cairo
> > libraries in their DFB version (a patch to add the DFB backend to
> > standard GTK+ 2.8.17 was already provided).
> > We're curretly working with an ad-hoc Cairo package [1] provided by
> > Frans Pop that was built against DFB 0.9.22.
> > We're now about to move to DFB 0.9.24, so i would like to know if you
> > could provide us an udeb compiled with the DFB (v 0.9.24) backend enabled.
>
>
> I can try to build one in a few days time but I'm unsure how I could test it
> (in isolation) as I'm not familiar with udebs.

Some times ago i prepared cairo and GTKDFB 2.9 unofficial i386 udebs [1] 
from their CVS repos to experiment what switching to newer GTK libraries 
would be.
If you prepare a udeb for CairoDFB 1.1.6, then you could use the 
unofficial GTK udeb i built to test the cairo udeb; i could also try to 
build a GTK 2.8.17 GDKDFB-patched udeb if you need it.

friendly

Attilio

[1] https://debian.polito.it/downloads/udebs/