[Python-modules-team] Bug#861175: Bug#861175: cairocffi: Please drop Build-Depends and Recommends on xcffib

[Sandro Tosi]

Hey Jean-Christophe,
do you have time to work on this or would you be ok with me having a
look at fixing it?

thanks!

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 8:44 AM, Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net> wrote:
> Source: cairocffi
> Version: 0.7.2-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: stretch-is-blocker / Depends on Source that FTBFS
>
> Hi,
>
> We have unfortunately learned that we cannot compile xcffib (neither
> in unstable nor in stretch).  Fixing it requires changes to more than
> one package and none of these changes are trivial.
>
> The easiest solution for stretch appears to be to have cairocffi drop
> its Build-Depends and Recommends on binaries built from xcffib and
> lose the optional features provided by that.
>
> Thanks,
> ~Niels
>
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