Control: severity -1 normal
Control: tags -1 upstream
* hugh.mcmas...@outlook.com <hugh.mcmas...@outlook.com> [2018-03-08 22:52]:
Source: fim
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'.
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 fim.
If this bug is not resolved prior to the release of FreeType 2.9.1,
your package may FTBFS.
Thank you for the heads up. I am hereby tagging this bug "upstream". It
will be really preferable that the upstream author (who, BTW, is also the
maintainer of the Debian package) fix this in the upstream source, when
time comes.
At any rate, I am also hereby downgrading the severity from "important"
to "normal", because version 2.9.1 of the FreeType package is not yet in
Debian, not even in experimental.
Please, feel free to ping us when version 2.9.1 will be uploaded to
Debian.
Best,
Rafael Laboissière
