[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#885786: Bug#885786: gnustep-back: Please drop art backend package

[Ivan Vučica]

> On 30 Dec 2017, at 00:59, Yavor Doganov <yavor at gnu.org> wrote:
> 
>  1) Wait for the opal or wayland backends to be labelled "ready for
>     release".  We can drop art immediately then.

It would be nice if Opal (Core Graphics) would be packaged anyway (a requirement for the -back opal). I’m not aware of apps that require it, but it would not be terrible to have a dev package either.

Wayland backend has not been merged at this time, and it’d be a “windowing” backend, not a “drawing” backend anyway. That is: I think it still uses Cairo.

>  2) Package the old xlib backend.  This is even more deprecated; the
>     only good news is that Xlib is not going away soon.

It sounds like a decent alternative for people that want ‘as simple backend as possible’, too.

>  3) Take libart under our umbrella.  (Provided it's a viable option
>     in the first place.)

To reiterate what you mentioned earlier in your email, on upstream mailing lists there were recently some voices saying they prefer font rendering of libart. For reader’s reference, emails were from 2017-11-27 on gnustep-dev at .

>  4) Just leave the cairo backend.

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