Bug#958487: inkscape: Inkscape v1.0 requires libcairo v1.17

[Mattia Rizzolo]

Control: reassign -1 src:cairo 1.16.0-4
Control: severity -1 wishlist
Control: retitle -1 cairo: Please update to the new upstream version 1.17

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 12:59:34PM -0700, Ian Bruce wrote:
> One of the new features in Inkscape v1.0 is the ability to export PNG
> images with 16-bit colour depth:
> 
> https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Release_notes/1.0#Export_PNG_images
> 
> However, this depends on the corresponding feature in the Cairo graphics
> library, which only became available in version 1.17.2, released over a
> year ago:
> 
> https://cairographics.org/news/cairo-1.17.2/
> 
> But this version is not yet available in the Debian archive, even in
> experimental:

Then this is a request for the cairo maintainers, reassigning.

> Cairo v1.17.2 in turn depends on libpixman v0.36, which is available in
> the Debian archive. However, it is also over a year out-of-date; the
> current version is v0.40:
> 
> https://www.cairographics.org/releases/

That would be https://bugs.debian.org/958298


Thanks for the report.

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