Hi Philip

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.

Cheers

Dave



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