[Merge] lp:~3v1n0/ubuntu/vivid/freetype/multithread-safe into lp:ubuntu/freetype

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño)]

Marco Trevisan (Treviño) has proposed merging lp:~3v1n0/ubuntu/vivid/freetype/multithread-safe into lp:ubuntu/freetype.

Requested reviews:
  Ubuntu branches (ubuntu-branches)
Related bugs:
  Bug #1199571 in freetype (Ubuntu): "Huge multi-threading violations in cairo"
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freetype/+bug/1199571

For more details, see:
https://code.launchpad.net/~3v1n0/ubuntu/vivid/freetype/multithread-safe/+merge/247373

Backported patches coming from this patchset [1] that has been just merged upstream [2] and that fixes huge multithread violations that are causing crashes in a lot of places in the upper stack.

Here [3] you can read more details about this patch.

[1] https://github.com/behdad/freetype/tree/ftthread
[2] http://www.mail-archive.com/freetype-devel@nongnu.org/msg06780.html
[3] http://www.mail-archive.com/freetype-devel@nongnu.org/msg06758.html

For being precise, this patch includes the changes merged in commits:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=89bc8d4d
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=531d463a
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=747ae2c8
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=8dc86358
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=a773c304
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=6dfdaf4d
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=51634253
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=603292d7
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=b2ba6866
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=c242fe41
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=ae6699f8
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=a4117fbd
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=c2733656
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=6f16b100
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=56ddafa0
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=48c86628
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=4eff854c
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Your team Ubuntu branches is requested to review the proposed merge of lp:~3v1n0/ubuntu/vivid/freetype/multithread-safe into lp:ubuntu/freetype.
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