libcairo2

[Marc Balmer]

> Am 12.11.2014 um 14:25 schrieb Robie Basak <robie.basak at ubuntu.com>:
> 
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 10:51:04AM +0100, Marc Balmer wrote:
>> The libcairo2 version in trusty contains a nasty bug that will crash webkit base browser when playing videos (see https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81699 <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81699>)
>> 
>> Could libcairo2 be updated to version 1.14.x eventually?
> 
> In stable releases, we usually backport fixes rather than update to new
> upstream releases in order to reduce regression risk to existing users.
> See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates for details.
> 
> For this bug, start by looking at
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cairo to see if this bug
> already exists in Launchpad. If it doesn't, then please file one to
> track this issue in Ubuntu.

I filed a bug in launchpad, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cairo/+bug/1391857 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cairo/+bug/1391857>.  As the fix is relatively simple, it should be fairly easy to back port the fix to libcairo 1.13, indeed.

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