FS#20996 - awesome does not work with new cairo 1.10

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Eric (zebulon) - Thursday, 30 September 2010, 10:37 GMT
Last edited by Ronald van Haren (pressh) - Thursday, 30 September 2010, 10:52 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Ronald van Haren (pressh)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
Cannot login to awesome after upgrading cairo to 1.10

Reason:
cairo 1.10 does not enable xcb anymore. This is an upstream decision from cairo developers, because xcb is (allegedly) unmaintained and unstable, and this breaks awesome.

Solution:
install cairo-xcb package. Problem is cairo-xcb is an AUR package and it might not be good policy to have a community package depend on AUR. Would it be possible to have cairo-xcb in community too?
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Closed by  Ronald van Haren (pressh)
Thursday, 30 September 2010, 10:52 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  removed awesome from repo and svn
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Thursday, 30 September 2010, 10:43 GMT
Ronald is your call. i remember you said you want awesome to be moved in AUR
Comment by Ronald van Haren (pressh) - Thursday, 30 September 2010, 10:48 GMT
yes, I'll remove it.

For those interested in the reasons, see arch-dev-public and the awesome AUR page.