Yes, your first idea is what I propose too. The "fix" in inkscape will be the imposition of a hard dependency on cairo >= 13.1
El 18/10/13 05:54, su_v escribió:
> For anyone using an unpatched stable cairo version the downscaling bug
> is again 'open' (after r12599), and inkscape now has declared this not
> being its own bug (by relying/depending on a future uptream cairo version).
>
> Personally, I would not have closed bug #804162 as 'Fix Committed' - I
> would have kept it as 'Triaged', and closed it as 'Invalid' once a newer
> stable cairo version is available on all major distros, and with all
> binary packages distributed by the Inkscape project itself (that's how
> we track other cairo bugs which had been reported for Inkscape instead
> of cairo, so far).
As a user who relies on bitmaps a lot (Inkscape is my main design
application, all my professional work is done with it) I'd be very
disappointed if a new version of inkscape is released with that bug
(upsteam or not).
If packagers unaware of this situation build inkscape for major distros
(for instance debian and its derivatives) while the new version of cairo
isn't released, it would be a catastrophe for anyone using bitmaps in
their inkscape designs.
It would mean a lot of users will have to pin their old versions of
inkscape or revert, because the new version will be unusable.
For anyone using inkscape with bitmaps this is a really big deal.
So, even though I'm not a developer and I'm probably missing a thing or
two about release cycles and packaging, I'd recommend to:
- Wait until the right version of cairo is released, and make it a hard
dependency so nobody packages 0.49 against the wrong version of cairo, or
- Include the right cairo lib (I know it's not a good idea, but it's far
worse to realease with that bug).
It is already a bad thing that image viewers like Eye of Gnome switched
to cairo with such a nasty bug (and they have been out for a couple of
years making images look like crap), it would be terrible if a creative
tool like inkscape suffers the same issue.
Please, consider this when the moment of releasing inkscape comes. In
creative tools quality is one of the most important aspects, and this is
a critical issue.
Gez.
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