Re: [RFC] Debian Installer Lenny Beta2 - Pending stuff and timeline
Jérémy Bobbio <lunar@debian.org> writes:
> On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 06:06:23PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> . Cairo frontend issues
>>
>> We've identified the problematic change inside of cairo code and
>> we're still waiting for the commiter to check it. If it takes too
>> long, we'll just revert all changes from directfb cairo module to
>> get it back to a know good state and keep going.
>
> I think that it would be easier to define the CAIRO_DIRECTFB_NO_ACCEL
> variable in rootskel-gtk than to revert changes in cairo: if we are
> short on time, let's not put too much burden on other maintainers when
> we can avoid it.
I'll talk to maintainer today and see if we can get it fixed at
sid. If this fails, we use the workaround and push that anyway.
> I am not advocating that we completely forget the issue, but this work
> around seems good enough for beta 2 to me.
This is very true but would be nice to avoid workarounds if possible.
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