Bug#1087038: libpango-1.0-0: Pango 1.52+ API+ABI breakage (affecting gnuplot in particular)

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2025-01-22 13:37:10 -0500, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
> It doesn't look like pango will be changing upstream as a result of
> your bug report. We're not going to do a downstream library transition
> for a widely used library like pango, just because of a small behavior
> change that apparently broke one app. It is unfortunately common for
> libraries like pango to make changes that break downstream apps where
> the library developers consider the apps to have been using
> unsupported ways of using the library.

OK, hoping that no other apps have been broken.

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