[Pkg-directfb-devel] Bug#543590: directfb: regressions in D-I with experimental 1.4 version

[Frans Pop]

Package: directfb
Version: 1.4.1-2
Severity: serious
Tags: d-i

As already announced in my reply to the call to test the 1.4 version in 
experimental, this version introduces a few of important regression in 
Debian Installer.

I've built cairo, gtk+2.0 and cdebconf (all from unstable) against it for 
a D-I test. The builds were all OK, but I see serious regressions in D-I.

In this screenshot you can see that our banner is missing:
http://people.debian.org/~fjp/tmp/d-i/directfb_regression.png

And the same goes for icons, so basically any image.

Also, if I move the cursor using the arrow keys, it jumps one line. E.g. 
if I go down, the current line moves from Moldova to Montenegro and skips 
Monaco. I guess the same happens for selection between two radiobuttons, 
but there it actually results in the selection not changing at all 
(because there's nothing to skip).

I've verified that both issues are not present in a daily built image 
using current libraries from unstable. I'll file a bug against the 
experimental version of directfb later.

There's also a rather large size increase of a D-I image: a daily built 
image is 18458624, while one with the new directfb is 18905088; that's an
increase of 436kB (compressed!). Are there options that can be disabled 
for the udeb?

Cheers,
FJP