[PATCH:libXft] xft.pc.in: Requires.private entries should not be duplicated in Requires

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Wed Sep 22 10:08:48 PDT 2010


On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 09:40:22 -0700, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

> What's this bit about freetype:
> FreeType 2.2.x breaks versions of libXfont before 1.2.0, and all
> current versions of fnttosfnt.
> 
libXfont 1.2.0 is 4 years old..

> Is this still relevant?  The line suggests freetype-2.1.x ... I'd been
> shipping 2.3.x without problem and have been using 2.4.x for a while.
> Is this just old news that should be punted?  Should we suggest
> freetype-2.4.2 or later (to match CVEs)?  Do we need to put out a
> release of fnttosfnt to fix it?  Is there an open ticket somewhere?  A
> quicksearch for "fnttosfnt" in bugzilla turned up nothing.
> 
Looking at git it seems this might have been fixed by
b651f24b766c9e76dec8a14c68623f4b7fa68141?  How old is the information in
the wiki?
> 
> Someone better understanding mesa should update the mesa line.  My
> guess is that we should just say mesa 7.2 or later:
> 
> Mesa 6.5.2 (or git master/head, if building the Git master/head X.Org
> code). To build GLX support into the X server you must have a copy of
> the Mesa source available at server build time, and you must tell the
> server where to find it with --with-mesa-source=/path/to/mesa at
> configure time. Mesa 6.4.1 is required for xorg-server 1.0.1. Note
> that Mesa 6.4.1 and 6.4.2 will cause compile errors when building
> X11R7.1. Mesa 6.5 will work (for 7.1; make sure you have 6.5.2 for
> building 7.2).
> 	• Note especially that for using MESA's current GIT/master
> 	version (which becomes 7.1), you will need the GIT/master
> 	version of xorg-server (which becomes 1.5). 1.4-branch does not
> 	work. More information on building DRM kernel driver and MESA +
> 	DRI drivers at DRI wiki.
> 
This part has changed quite a bit...

Cheers,
Julien


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