On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 18:54 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 10:45 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > As I've been asked to convince you to allow a new cairo upload with a > > given patch (see below), here I am ;) > [...] > > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 06:08:07PM +0200, Sebastian Dröge wrote: > > > On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 17:59 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 05:55:16PM +0200, Sebastian Dröge wrote: > [...] > > > > > Probably but I don't really like the idea of having yet another release > > > > > with this workaround for buggy drivers. As long as that workaround is in > > > > > cairo nobody will ever fix the buggy drivers... > > > > > > > > > > If nothing happens before squeeze release on the drivers front. (...) > > > > > > > > It hasn't happened since way before lenny released, there is no way this > > > > will happen in the little time remaining before the squeeze release. > > Well, I'm not going to force the maintainers to include the patch if > they don't want to but, yes, I'd accept an upload that incorporated that > patch (preferably without a bunch of unrelated changes that break the > world as well ;-). Well, I asked Mike to ask you because of this patch. It feels dirty to apply this hack again :/ I'll upload a new cairo version with just this patch to unstable soon, thanks.
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