Package: libfreetype6 Version: 2.1.10-1 Severity: important Hi Will,
I am filing this bug to raise your attention about the API changes in libfreetype6 from 2.1.7 to 2.1.10. Due to the large extent it may affect, I am also cc:ing debian-release. FreeType 2.1.7 was released on November 2003, and Debian stuck to this version for quite a while. Recently Will take over freetype and uploaded freshly released 2.1.10. However, there are substantial API changes from 2.1.7 to 2.1.10. For example, a series of functions to control font emboldening are implemented in 2.1.10 [1], and XFT 2.1.7 were already using them if they are available. The libxft 2.1.7-1 currently in sid are compiled against old libfreetype6 2.1.7 so those features are not enabled. However, if libxft2 is rebuilt against sid right now, those features will be enabled and if the new libxft2 is used with old libfreetype 2.1.7 (for exapmle, the one in sarge), there will be unresolved symbol errors. So from my understanding, it's urgent for libfreetype6 to bump its shlibs from "libfreetype6 (>= 2.1.5-1)" to "libfreetype6 (>= 2.1.10-1)". A more serious problem, though, is that FreeType 2.1.10 dropped some old APIs. I didn't follow freetype development, and the CHANGES documentation in freetype aren't very clear either. Therefore I don't know if these APIs were private, or deprecated long ago, or anything else. But them being dropped are causing many new problems. The ones I am aware of right now are: (1) mozilla-firefox FTBFS [2] on new libfreetype6-dev because it uses old FTC_Image_Cache_* API (superseded by FTC_ImageCache_*). (2) gworkspace.app get undefined symbol FTC_Manager_Lookup_Size while using new libfreetype6 [3]. So how should we deal with this issue? I can't find a comprehensive list about what APIs are dropped from 2.1.7 to 2.1.10, and even if we have such a list, it's still hard to figure out which packages are using them. I hope we deal with these two issues as early as possible (especially the first one, as more and more packaged are built with new libfreetype6-dev). I still remember the big headache libtiff API change caused before sarge release, don't let it happen again for etch. 1. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/freetype-devel/2005-06/msg00068.html 2. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=314243 3. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=314385 Thanks, Ming 2005.06.27 -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-k7 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages libfreetype6 depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - runtime libfreetype6 recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
