[Bug 198836] Review Request: freetype1 compatibility FreeType 1.x

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Summary: Review Request: freetype1 compatibility FreeType 1.x


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=198836


j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl changed:

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------- Additional Comments From j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl  2006-10-19 11:23 EST -------
Hi all,

First of all apologies for hijacking this review, but it seems a bit stalled.
Some timeago davej send a mail to the FE list that he would dearly miss
MagicPoint, since davej is a nice guy and does tremendous work for the FC kernel
I thought I could do him a favour by unorphaning MagicPoint however it turns out
that MagicPoint requires freetype1, so here I am.

Behdad Esfahbod, thanks for creating and posting the freetype1 compat package, I
think it is great that you thought about possible troubles for FE when dropping
this from Core. However I also see that you are not an FE contributer at the
moment and thus need to go to the sponsering process. Is this the only package
you intend to submit and maintain in FE, or do you plan to submit other packages
too?

If this is the only one then it would maybe be better if someoneelse (me for
example) maintained freetype1 in FE, in that case I would like to ask you to be
my co-maintainer as I assume you no freetype infinetely better then I do so if I
get any bug reports against freetype which are about functional problems (not
packaging problems) then I could really use your help.

If you intend to submit more packages then you'll need a sponsor. Since I can
sponsor people and I know have a vested interest in getting freetype1 into FE,
let me offer myself as your sponsor in this scenario.

Either way I've already prepared a cleaned up and improved freetype1 package
with the following changes:
* Thu Oct 19 2006 Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl> 1.4-0.2.pre
- Base on freetype-1.3.1.tar.gz + a patch with the changes contained
  in the 1.4pre tarbal found in previous Fedora Core freetype releases
- Cleanup and FE-ize the spec file
- Don't reautoconf as that doesn't seem nescesarry
- Fix (remove) use of rpath
- Don't include static libs and .la files
- Give the freetype1-utils Obsoletes and Provides an Epoch instead of
  using a 2.x version.

Do you know why the whole reautoconf thing was ever done in the first place?

You can get this new version from here:
http://people.atrpms.net/~hdegoede/freetype1.spec
http://people.atrpms.net/~hdegoede/freetype1-1.4-0.2.pre.src.rpm


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