Re: pygobject: Plan to depend on a new pycairo fork

[Christoph Reiter <reiter christoph gmail com>]

With the next release coming up, a friendly reminder to Debian based
distributions, that the py2cairo version required by PyGObject 3.26 is
not ABI compatible with the one currently shipped in Debian:

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 10:00 PM, Christoph Reiter
<reiter christoph gmail com> wrote:
> From a distributions POV the main changes are that it uses distutils as build
> system, can build Python 2 and Python 3 versions from the same source, and is
> licensed under MPLv1.1+LGPLv2.1. The new versions are API/ABI compatible to
> the 1.10.0 releases of both py2cairo and py3cairo. This includes the patched
> version of py3cairo currently in Debian/Ubuntu.
>
> One issue with Debian is that it still uses py2cairo 1.8.8 and py2cairo broke
> ABI between 1.8.8 and 1.8.10 and all other distributions have moved on to
> 1.10.0 by now. There are 8 packages directly affected by the ABI break:
> https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=Pycairo_IMPORT I assume a transition is
> required here.