Bug#884769: RFS: freetype/2.8.1-0.2 [NMU]
Hello Hugh,
>33 reverse build dependences FTBFS after the removal of freetype-config.>11 don't care, and 42 already use pkg-config to detect freetype2.
ok, so fix all the reverse dependencies *before* dropping it, not after.
We don't usually "break stuff and let maintainers fixup things", but:
1) open bugs (maybe with patches)
2) integrate patches upstream
3) ask a transition slot (since this involves more than 10 packages, better ask on -devel
for an Mass Bug Filing)
4) Upload the breaking change after reverse-deps migrated to testing
>freetype-config is a wrapper for pkg-config if the latter is installed. Unfortunately,
>this outputs the wrong libdir when cross-compiling. This is also the case when
>using the autoconf-detected path via the 'else' block.
ack, seems a good fallback method.
Anyhow, we are really blocked by Steve, I pinged him on irc, maybe we can fix this old bug
now!
G.
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