[Pkg-fglrx-devel] Fwd: Re: Bug#597357: unblock: cairo/1.8.10-6

[Mehdi Dogguy]

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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Bug#597357: unblock: cairo/1.8.10-6
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 15:44:04 +0200
From: Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi at dogguy.org>
To: Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org>, 597357-done at bugs.debian.org
CC: fglrx-driver at packages.qa.debian.org

On 09/19/2010 02:11 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le dimanche 19 septembre 2010 à 11:12 +0200, Mehdi Dogguy a écrit :
>> On 09/19/2010 12:05 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote:
>>> Everybody using the fglrx driver should set the 
>>> MOZ_CAIRO_BUGGY_REPEAT environment variable, everybody else 
>>> should get a correctly working and fast cairo again.
>> 
>> Isn't it worth mentioning such a change in debian/NEWS? So that 
>> users are actually aware of the behaviour change.
> 
> I think it should be documented in fglrx instead. The behavior of 
> 1.8.10-5 is buggy anyway, so we just came back and gave fglrx users 
> an opportunity to have a working gecko/webkit.
> 
> However nobody is going to look for the solution in the cairo 
> documentation. Ideally, I’d even say this variable should be set by 
> fglrx in a Xsession startup script if the driver is being used, 
> instead of being documented (remember, no one reads documentation).
> 

Fair enough. I CC'ed fglrx maintainers so that they are aware of this
change and can document it somehow. It think it's worth mentioning in
the Release Notes, no?

Unblocked.

Regards,

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