Re: Proxied permission to upload a patched cairo [Was: Bug#502018: Iceweasel rendering problems still exist in Iceweasel 3.5.11 in Sid]

[Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>]

Dear release team,

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 05:47:07AM +0200, Sebastian Dröge wrote:
> 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.

Please allow that version of cairo (1.8.10-5) into testing.

Cheers,

Mike