On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 06:49:54PM +0100, Phil Blundell wrote: > On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 08:58 +0100, Dave Beckett wrote: > > 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. > Sorry about the delay there. I've uploaded this now. Debian-release, > could you please put libgpewidget 0.88-2 into sarge as Dave requests? Approved. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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