Retiring pangox

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Fri Sep 25 01:53:43 UTC 2009


Hi,

The pangox backend of pango have been deprecated for years (2001ish) and I'm 
going to remove it upstream in a week or two.  Matthias suggested we get rid 
of it in f12.  I totally welcome that.  So I want to rebuild pango with pangox 
disabled in the coming days.

I don't know of even one package that actually uses the pangox backend/API.  I 
did a quick query [1] and seems like most packages linking to it are doing 
that because gtkglext2 wrongly has pangox in its .pc file.  I will patch 
gtkglext2 to fix that, but all the dependent packages need to be rebuilt. 
There are some alarming ones though.  In particular:

   xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-0:185.18.36-1.fc11.i586
   AdobeReader_deu-0:9.1.3-1.i486
   AdobeReader_jpn-0:9.1.3-1.i486

Any help figuring out what's going on and how to move forward is appreciated.

Cheers,
behdad

[1] repoquery --whatrequires libpangox-1.0.so.0




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