The upstream fix is committed in Cairo but has not yet been released. As such, we can't yet specify a hard dependency. The version in the ppa is actually just a patched version of the stable Cairo package.
Once a suitable Cairo version is released, we should bump our dependency level and mark the regressions as fix released (the downscaling issues were never in a stable inkscape release). I don't think we should release 0.49 until then.
AV
On Thu, 2013-10-17 at 15:21 -0300, Guillermo Espertino (Gez) wrote:
> I have a question regarding these bitmap scaling bugs. As far as I
> know the patch for bitmap scaling with Cairo has been applied
If this bug is fixed with the new Cairo, then it should be made a dup.
suv~ thoughts?
> I wonder what will happen with distros that don't have the new version
> of Cairo yet once inkscape 0.49 is released.
We already have the new Cairo in PPA. Bryce can probably be more
specific, but the goal I believe is to make the new Cairo a hard dep,
bundle it with Windows and Mac versions and keep the PPA until Debian
FDOs catch up and can include the new inkscape version. Same might apply
to the Hat FDOs but I don't know about their PPA.
> So what's the plan?
Fix bugs and hope we can make a release ;-)
Martin,
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