Bug#638761: gtkmathview: please remove t1lib dependency

Moritz Muehlenhoff jmm at inutil.org
Wed Mar 5 16:26:23 UTC 2014


Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> Le lundi 22 août 2011 à 00:21 -0400, Michael Gilbert a écrit :
> > Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > > t1lib is slated to be removed (in favor of freetype) before wheezy ships
> > > > [0],[1]. This package is currently one of its reverse dependencies.
> > > > Please convert the package to use freetype.
> > > Are you considering a patch for gtkmathview like you did for other
> > > packages ?
> [...]
> > I would suggest talking to your upstream to determine whether
> > they handle freetype only, and if not pester them to do that.
> OK, I am going to do that. Thanks!

Can you go ahead and remove the build-dep on libt1-dev for now? I've verified
in a test build that the configure script correctly disables t1lib support
in that case (T1_FontDataBase.hh needs to drop the include as well)

(I'll soon request the removal of t1lib from testing)

Cheers,
        Moritz



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