Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 18:49:31 +0200 From: Koop Mast <kwm@rainbow-runner.nl> To: Niclas Zeising <zeising@freebsd.org> Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org, Robbin Habermehl <robbin@habermehl.net>, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Ports: cairo-1.10.2_4,2 & poppler-utils-0.18.4_1 Message-ID: <508ABF1B.7000501@rainbow-runner.nl> In-Reply-To: <508ABDA4.8000508@freebsd.org> References: <FD6963B8-681E-4DF3-B57C-4B9D639DABCD@habermehl.net> <508ABDA4.8000508@freebsd.org>
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On 26-10-2012 18:43, Niclas Zeising wrote: > On 10/26/12 18:15, Robbin Habermehl wrote: >> Dear Sir/Madam, >> >> As Cairo and Poppler (and Poppler-utils) have been updated regularly >> the last couple of months the available FreeBSD ports have become >> kind of outdated. The current port versions are 1.10.2 for Cairo and >> 0.18.4 for Poppler (and Poppler-utils), while the current versions >> are 1.12.6 and 0.20.5 respectively. >> >> Both applications have been improved tremendously with these updates, >> so for most users these most recent versions are quite essential. >> Would you please be so kind therefore to port these latest versions >> and make them available to FreeBSD? Thanks in advance! >> >> With best regards, >> >> Robbin Habermehl > > Hi! > Currently we are in a freeze pending the release of FreeBSD 9.1. Both > poppler and cario are dependencies on a lot of ports, and therefore it > is not a good idea to update them right before a release, in case > something breaks. > Regards! Poppler update will happen after the 9.1-R is out. Cairo is much harder since the new version exposes serious bugs in some xorg drivers that are very hard to fix. -Koop
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