[arch-dev-public] Dropping pangox-compat

[Jan Alexander Steffens]

Sounds good; thanks!

On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 4:17 PM Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I would like to drop pangox-compat. Reasons:
> 1. it does not compile with pango 1.44
> 2. the current compiled package links fine, but does not render any text
> when used with pango 1.44
> 3. upstream has archived the source and doesn't support it anymore
> 4. People care about 1. but not about 2. -> library only exists because
> software links to it
>
> So far we have only a few packages depending on it:
> - gtkglext (direct dependency, gdk_gl_font_use_pango_font* functions,
> removed in git master)
> - gtkmathview (direct dependency, libraries linking to it not used by
> abiword)
> - gambas3-gb-gtk-opengl (pulled in through gtkglext, no further
> relations)
>
> Todo:
> - patch gtkglext to remove API depending on pangox-compat, already
> packaged, not uploaded yet
> - drop gtkmathview parts that depend on pangox-compat (Abiword needs the
> libxml2 module, nothing else)
> - rebuild gambas3 (is in staging for ICU rebuild now)
>
> Any objections?
>