FS#29080 - [cairo] please enable xcb backend in 1.12.0

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by xduugu (xduugu) - Friday, 23 March 2012, 21:35 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Saturday, 31 March 2012, 09:16 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 16
Private No

Details

cairo 1.12.0 was just released and according to the release notes[1], the xcb backend is no longer considered as experimental (the README hasn't been updated yet as it seems), which was the reason why it was removed from the official package some time ago.
Please re-enable the xcb backend in the offical package so that packages that depend on it like awesome can be moved back into the repositories.
Maybe the cairo-xcb package that I used to maintain in the AUR can be removed when this request was implemented.

[1] http://cairographics.org/news/cairo-1.12.0/
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Saturday, 31 March 2012, 09:16 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Comment by Kyle Keen (keenerd) - Friday, 23 March 2012, 21:54 GMT
Just for reference on JGC's previous stance: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20960
Comment by xduugu (xduugu) - Saturday, 24 March 2012, 06:16 GMT
Thanks for finding the old bug report.

I've attached a patch against the PKGBUILD from trunk how it could look like.

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