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

[Dave Beckett <dave@dajobe.org>]

Sven Luther wrote:
> On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 03:50:31AM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> I read the cairo changelog yesterday, and i couldn't see any risk of
> instability, only more stabilty, but i am no expert. Do we have feedback from
> the cairo maintainer on this, or from the gnome people ? Mike, do you have an
> opinion on cairoa 1.0.4 vs cairo 1.1.x ?

As the cairo maintainer...  the state of 1.1.x in git is pretty good, but
1.2.0 is a major release which should be the one in etch.  It'll be needed
for other major packages such as firefox2 (later) and I guess other rdepends
such as gtk, mono and gcj/classpath will update to use the new APIs there
sometime.

So for now, I'd package an experimental 1.1.x and later an 1.2.0 in unstable.

Dave