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

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño)]

The proposal to merge lp:~3v1n0/ubuntu/vivid/freetype/multithread-safe into lp:ubuntu/freetype has been updated.

Description changed to:

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
  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=264b5e46

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