Accepted libcairo 1.0.2-3ubuntu1 (source)

Reinhard Tartler siretart at gmail.com
Mon Dec 5 08:41:34 GMT 2005


On 12/5/05, Sebastien Bacher <seb128 at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Le lundi 05 décembre 2005 à 07:56 +0100, Reinhard Tartler a écrit :
>
> > Maybe this patch is not required for ubuntu, but yesterday, I ran into
> > problems with a partial upgrade. With updating libcairo from dapper, I
> > got unresolved symbols for symbols in libfreetype while running
> > evolution (it started fine first, but crashed when I displaying
> > chinese characters from my spam box).
>
> Do you have the message about this, what symbol is that?
evolution: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2: undefined
symbol: FT_GlyphSlot_Embolden

> cairo has not
> changed anything, I guess that you have simply updated freetype which
> have changed his ABI without changing its soname
> (http://bugs.debian.org/340878). If something needs to get its shlibs
> changed that's libfreetype6, not libcairo2.

Looks like. So freetype needs a soname bump, doesn't it? (and another
reupload of cairo to get the dependencies right).

--
regards,
    Reinhard



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