Proxied permission to upload a patched cairo [Was: Bug#502018: Iceweasel rendering problems still exist in Iceweasel 3.5.11 in Sid]

[Sebastian Dröge]

On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 18:54 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 10:45 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > As I've been asked to convince you to allow a new cairo upload with a
> > given patch (see below), here I am ;)
> [...]
> > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 06:08:07PM +0200, Sebastian Dröge wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 17:59 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 05:55:16PM +0200, Sebastian Dröge wrote:
> [...]
> > > > > Probably but I don't really like the idea of having yet another release
> > > > > with this workaround for buggy drivers. As long as that workaround is in
> > > > > cairo nobody will ever fix the buggy drivers...
> > > > > 
> > > > > If nothing happens before squeeze release on the drivers front. (...)
> > > > 
> > > > It hasn't happened since way before lenny released, there is no way this
> > > > will happen in the little time remaining before the squeeze release.
> 
> Well, I'm not going to force the maintainers to include the patch if
> they don't want to but, yes, I'd accept an upload that incorporated that
> patch (preferably without a bunch of unrelated changes that break the
> world as well ;-).

Well, I asked Mike to ask you because of this patch. It feels dirty to
apply this hack again :/

I'll upload a new cairo version with just this patch to unstable soon,
thanks.
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