Re: Bug#309933: libgpewidget1: request to remove dependency on cairo

[Phil Blundell <pb@reciva.com>]

On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 08:58 +0100, Dave Beckett wrote:
> On Fri, 20 May 2005, Philip Blundell wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 16:39 +0100, Dave Beckett wrote:
> > > I am the maintainer of the cairo libraries in debian and I have
> > > recently made the request that they be removed from sarge as the API
> > > is about to make a big change and it is probably a bad idea to ship
> > > the old api version in a release:
> > >   http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2005/05/msg01167.html
> > >
> > > Although this request is still under consideration, libgpewidget is
> > > one of the few (2) apps using cairo going into sarge.  I checked the
> > > libgpewidget1 source and it seems there is alternate code if cairo is
> > > not available, which was easy for me to enable with $(make) CAIRO=no
> > > in the build rule.
> > >
> > > Can I request libgpewidget is rebuilt without cairo, removing the
> > > build dependency also.
> >
> > Seems reasonable.  I'll make that change.
> 
> Can I ask if you are going to upload this soon?  To get cairo removed
> I need a new libgpewidget upload and need you to request debian-release
> to add the new version into sarge.  There's only a few days left.

Sorry about the delay there.  I've uploaded this now.  Debian-release,
could you please put libgpewidget 0.88-2 into sarge as Dave requests?

Thanks

p.