Bug#704872: libpango1.0-0: latest version no longer supplies modules, breaks initramfs with Plymouth, often pops up warnings

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

reassign 704872 plymouth

Hi Alex,

On 04/07/2013 02:44 AM, Alex Vanderpol wrote:
> Package: libpango1.0-0
> Version: 1.32.5-3
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> The latest version of Pango appears to be fairly problematic, first with i386
> packages not recognizing the transitional package for all architectures
> (already filed a separate bug about that),

I'll look into that soon.

> and now I discover that the module
> files that used to be shipped with the older version no longer exist, breaking
> initramfs with Plymouth (meaning no new kernel installs or upgrades) and
> throwing up warnings for anything else looking for them.

This may be a bug in plymouth. I see in its hook that it tries to copy a module 
to the ramdisk:

copy_exec /usr/lib/@DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH@/pango/1.6.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so

but the modules are now built in, so this souldn't be necessary anymore. And 
even if we still shipped the modules like before, it would still fail because 
the module ABI is 1.8.0 in pango >= 1.32.

plymouth maintainers: pango from experimental builds the modules into the shared 
library. The plymouth hook needs to be updated to cope with this (perhaps you 
can do this in experimental for the time being).

Thanks,
Emilio