FreeBSD Ports: cairo-1.10.2_4,2 & poppler-utils-0.18.4_1
Otacílio
otacilio.neto at bsd.com.br
Sat Oct 27 01:13:18 UTC 2012
On 26/10/2012 18:27, Robbin Habermehl wrote:
> That sounds reasonable, thanks for the update!
>
> Regarding Cairo; wouldn't it be possible to publish multiple port
> versions of it? I noticed the same thing was done for FFmpeg.
>
> Regards,
>
> Robbin
>
>
> Op 26 okt. 2012 om 18:49 heeft Koop Mast <kwm at rainbow-runner.nl>
> het volgende geschreven:
>
>> On 26-10-2012 18:43, Niclas Zeising wrote:
>>> On 10/26/12 18:15, Robbin Habermehl wrote:
>>>> Dear Sir/Madam,
>>>>
>>>> As Cairo and Poppler (and Poppler-utils) have been updated
>>>> regularly the last couple of months the available FreeBSD
>>>> ports have become kind of outdated. The current port versions
>>>> are 1.10.2 for Cairo and 0.18.4 for Poppler (and
>>>> Poppler-utils), while the current versions are 1.12.6 and
>>>> 0.20.5 respectively.
>>>>
>>>> Both applications have been improved tremendously with these
>>>> updates, so for most users these most recent versions are
>>>> quite essential. Would you please be so kind therefore to
>>>> port these latest versions and make them available to
>>>> FreeBSD? Thanks in advance!
>>>>
>>>> With best regards,
>>>>
>>>> Robbin Habermehl
>>>
>>> Hi! Currently we are in a freeze pending the release of FreeBSD
>>> 9.1. Both poppler and cario are dependencies on a lot of ports,
>>> and therefore it is not a good idea to update them right before
>>> a release, in case something breaks. Regards!
>>
>> Poppler update will happen after the 9.1-R is out. Cairo is much
>> harder since the new version exposes serious bugs in some xorg
>> drivers that are very hard to fix.
>>
>> -Koop
This bugs are on Intel drivers?
-Otacílio
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