Yet I've not checked how many Debian packages require
freetype-config and could not be fallbacked by pkg-config,
but it's slightly difficult for me to understand why they
do not separate freetype-config to different package (e.g.
something like libfreetype6, libfreetype6-dev,
libfreetype-freetype-config), if they so dislike freetype-config.

Regards,
mpsuzuki

Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> Hello Alan!
> 
> 
>> Unless I'm missing something, those bugs are entirely about Debian &
>> Ubuntu packaging problems with nothing for upstream to do.
> 
> Ah, good to know, thanks.
> 
>> The only upstream complaint I see is that freetype-config still
>> exists, and hasn't been completely removed now in favor of the
>> pkg-config files.
> 
> Well, noone is *forced* to use freetype-config...
> 
> 
>     Werner
> 
> 
> PS: Have you seen my X11 bug report w.r.t. pcfWriteFont?
> 
>       https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87256
> 
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