Hugh,

On 8 March 2018 at 22:52, hugh.mcmas...@outlook.com wrote:
| Source: rgl
| Severity: important
| 
| Dear Maintainer,
| 
| The next release of libfreetype6-dev will *not* ship
| `freetype-config', as the script has now been deprecated in favour of
| `pkg-config'.

It's sort of a false alarm. While freetype-config is used / looked for, I had
never added the library to Build-Depends so we never actually built with it.

I made the change, and will talk to upstream for rgl.

Thanks,  Dirk
 
| This is an upstream change:
| 
| "Use of the `freetype-config' script to get compilation and
| 
| linking options is deprecated since it doesn't support
| 
| cross-compiling, among other deficiencies. Instead, you should
| 
| use the `pkg-config' interface." [1]
| 
| Please use `pkg-config' to detect the FreeType 2 headers and
| libraries in rgl.
| 
| If this bug is not resolved prior to the release of FreeType 2.9.1,
| your package may FTBFS.
| 
| Thank you
| 
| [1]
| http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=b0
| a93839b52818abbfe9b4c8755b4aa0f5232063 

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