Hello Steve.

On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 01:56:32AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> The libparagui1.0c2a package is missing a dependency on libfreetype6,
> because libparagui-1.0.so.0 is not properly linked:
> 
> $ ldd -d -r /usr/lib/libparagui-1.0.so.0 > /dev/null
> undefined symbol: FT_Init_FreeType      (/usr/lib/libparagui-1.0.so.0)
> undefined symbol: FT_Load_Glyph (/usr/lib/libparagui-1.0.so.0)
> undefined symbol: FT_Done_Face  (/usr/lib/libparagui-1.0.so.0)
> undefined symbol: FT_New_Memory_Face    (/usr/lib/libparagui-1.0.so.0)
> undefined symbol: FT_Get_Kerning        (/usr/lib/libparagui-1.0.so.0)
> undefined symbol: FT_Get_Char_Index     (/usr/lib/libparagui-1.0.so.0)
> undefined symbol: FT_MulFix     (/usr/lib/libparagui-1.0.so.0)
> undefined symbol: FT_Done_FreeType      (/usr/lib/libparagui-1.0.so.0)
> undefined symbol: FT_Set_Char_Size      (/usr/lib/libparagui-1.0.so.0)
> $
> 
> Ironically, -lfreetype *is* exported in the output of paragui-config --libs,
> which normally results in functional applications but can break quite badly
> if the underlying lib goes through an ABI change -- as is happening right
> now with libfreetype.
> 
> Please fix libparagui1.0c2a so that it links against libfreetype6 and picks
> up a correct dependency, to prevent it from being overlooked in library
> transitions.
> 
> A possible patch for this issue can be found attached to this mail; it is
> unfortunately rather large, because of libparagui1.0's use of ancient
> versions of the autotools, but the patch has been ordered so that the
> sourceful changes are all in the first 150 or so lines of the diff.  If
> you'd like, I'll be happy to upload this as an NMU, though most of these
> changes should probably be submitted upstream as well.

Feel free to NMU it. I'll be thankful for that.

I doubt these changes are going to be included upstream. This branch of
libparagui is considered obsolete.

regards
fEnIo
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