Bug#1082114: libcairo2: cairo 1.18.2 caused regressions with PDF export/printing in xournal/evince (fix available)

[Miguel Bernal Marin]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 02:48:50PM +0100, Tim Müller wrote:
> Package: libcairo2
> Version: 1.18.2-1
> Severity: important
> Tags: patch upstream
> 

Dear maintainer,

I've the the same issue, and I created a MR whith the fix at:

https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/cairo/-/merge_requests/3

Could you please so a new release with this path?

Thanks,

> Hi,
> 
> Since the cairo upgrade to 1.18.2 I've seen major regressions with PDF export and printing in Xournal, Xournalpp and Evince.
> 
> In Xournal(pp) it fails with an 'out of memory' error when exporting to PDF.
> 
> This matches this issue in upstream cairo:
> 
> 	https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/-/issues/870
> 
> which was closed upstream by this Merge Request:
> 
> 	https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/-/merge_requests/595
> 
> Patch:
> 
> 	https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/-/merge_requests/595.patch
> 
> It would be great if you could pull that fix into the debian package until there's a new cairo release.
> 
> (As advised by upstream in the issue above.)
> 
> Many thanks!
> 
> Tim