SRU for pango-graphite in Lucid

[Martin Erik Werner]

Hello

I think that pango-graphite should be SRUd into Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid in
order to fix Bug #540035:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pango-graphite/+bug/540035

The update would fix a rather severe bug which makes it impossible to
login to Ubuntu if pango-graphite is installed in combination with some
ttf-sil-* fonts (e.g. ttf-sil-doulos):

Since I'm unsure, I'd like to know what you think is the best way to go
about fixing this, or if it would qualify for SRU at all?

Upstream has made a new release which fixes this bug, and is a small
diff code-wise. I don't know if the upstream code changes contains more
than what is necessary to address the bug, hence I'm going by the
assumption that all those changes would need to be incorporated in the
SRU.

Because of this, I think it would make sense to include the whole new
upstream release in the SRU, since it would be more obvious if the
version number, etc. matched the current code. These extra bits would be
a version bump in autotools (with regeneration) and capitalisation fixes
in the documentation.

Alternatively it would work to only grab the code changes as a patch,
and skip the rest, possibly this would better fit SRU policy...

Debian stable carries the exact code this change would result in
(whereas later versions of Ubuntu & Debian carries additional patches on
top), so presumably it is reasonably tested.

The full upstream diff and the reduced version containing only the code
changes are attached to the bug report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pango-graphite/+bug/540035/+attachment/3201822/+files/pango-graphite-0.9.2-to-0.9.3.diff
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pango-graphite/+bug/540035/+attachment/1424192/+files/u01_crasher-fix.patch

Thanks.
-- 
Martin Erik Werner <martinerikwerner at gmail.com>
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