[ITP] cairomm, as replacement for cairomm1.0

Marco Atzeri marco.atzeri@gmail.com
Fri May 15 17:42:46 GMT 2020


On 15.05.2020 17:30, Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> cygport file attached.  I've bumped the version to 1.12.2, which is the 
> latest stable upstream release.  Upstream has actually released 1.15.5, 
> but the News file says it's unstable and recommends that distros not 
> package it.
> 
> I'm proposing an unversioned source package cairomm, as well as 
> unversioned devel and doc packages.  This is what we do with many 
> library packages, and it is consistent with Fedora's packaging.
> 
> It will also ease future maintenance.  I've looked at the upstream git 
> repo, and there's been an ABI change from 1.0 to 1.14 and then to 1.16.  
> It would be annoying to have to create a new Cygwin package for each 
> such change.
> 
> I'll wait for Yaakov to weigh in on this before I upload anything.
> 
> The change might require some manual intervention on sourceware, to 
> rename the existing cairomm1.0 directory to cairomm.
> 
> Ken

added to the package list and assigned cairomm1.0 to you
as will make any package movement easier

Regards
Marco


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