Hello Hugh,
>33 reverse build dependences FTBFS after the removal of freetype-config.>11 >don't care, and 42 already use pkg-config to detect freetype2. ok, so fix all the reverse dependencies *before* dropping it, not after. We don't usually "break stuff and let maintainers fixup things", but: 1) open bugs (maybe with patches) 2) integrate patches upstream 3) ask a transition slot (since this involves more than 10 packages, better ask on -devel for an Mass Bug Filing) 4) Upload the breaking change after reverse-deps migrated to testing >freetype-config is a wrapper for pkg-config if the latter is installed. >Unfortunately, >this outputs the wrong libdir when cross-compiling. This is also the case when >using the autoconf-detected path via the 'else' block. ack, seems a good fallback method. Anyhow, we are really blocked by Steve, I pinged him on irc, maybe we can fix this old bug now! G.
