Bug#630811: cairo: Please consider packaging 1.11.2 in experimental (with GL support)
Source: cairo
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
I'm getting new wayland packages ready, and while the library part
(#611400) can live without cairo+gl, the compositor/clients part
(#630809) can't.
Currently, the website (and testing) advises a git snapshot past 1.11.2,
but that tag would be sufficient to get things built. A few cherry-picks
would make more or less all clients run mostly OK, and I can prepare
either:
- a patch series with all the needed commits (touching the gl part only),
- or a big patch, squashing all commits into a single commit,
depending on what you prefer.
On IRC I got an ACK from the Gnome team (nobody's working on it yet, but
people are free to do so), and Fathi said he might be interested in
doing the work, so I'm X-Debbugs-Cc'ing him (along with the X Strike
Force).
Oh and the (obvious) parts: that would target experimental, and would
mean enabling GL support again in debian/rules. :-)
Please let me know if you have any questions, or need any testing before
uploading. (For the moment I only played with ./autogen.sh
--prefix=/usr/local --enable-xcb --enable-gl)
Oh, and before I forget: that's wayland. So absolutely not urgent. Just
a way to get people to try it out for themselves, and get back to their
usual business under X. :D
Thanks already!
Mraw,
KiBi.
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