Proxied permission to upload a patched cairo [Was: Bug#502018: Iceweasel rendering problems still exist in Iceweasel 3.5.11 in Sid]

[Adam D. Barratt]

On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 10:45 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> As I've been asked to convince you to allow a new cairo upload with a
> given patch (see below), here I am ;)
[...]
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 06:08:07PM +0200, Sebastian Dröge wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 17:59 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 05:55:16PM +0200, Sebastian Dröge wrote:
[...]
> > > > Probably but I don't really like the idea of having yet another release
> > > > with this workaround for buggy drivers. As long as that workaround is in
> > > > cairo nobody will ever fix the buggy drivers...
> > > > 
> > > > If nothing happens before squeeze release on the drivers front. (...)
> > > 
> > > It hasn't happened since way before lenny released, there is no way this
> > > will happen in the little time remaining before the squeeze release.

Well, I'm not going to force the maintainers to include the patch if
they don't want to but, yes, I'd accept an upload that incorporated that
patch (preferably without a bunch of unrelated changes that break the
world as well ;-).

Regards,

Adam