Main Inclusion Report for libpixman-1-dev

Requirements

1. Availability: any architecture

2. Rationale:

   • pixman (libpixman-1-dev) is a new hard dependency of the xserver as of version 1.4.
   • This code used to be inside the xserver, but a fork of it was being maintained in Cairo. By moving it out of xserver into a formal library, both X and Cairo can share bug fixes and improvements, and keep the code in sync.

   • This is not to be confused with the old 'libpixman' 0.1.6 package, which is an obsolete, antique version of this imported from debian originally, but now dropped by them. A request for dropping this package was filed during Gutsy (as encouraged by upstream), but is still pending.

3. Security:

   • CVE entries: 0 entries

   • Secunia history: 0 entries

   • This package has no binaries and no daemons.
   • This package does not open any ports and does not handle network data.
   • Source code review assumed to be done upstream by Xorg.

4. Quality assurance:

   • There are no situations where the package will not work without configuration.
   • The package does not ask any debconf questions higher than priority 'medium'

   • libpixman-1-dev has no open bugs in Debian

   • Maintenance in Debian is steady and frequent

   • Upstream is steady and frequent

   • Upstream bug tracker: Only one recently reported bug; a fix has been pushed to git

   • Hardware: This package does not deal directly with hardware

5. Standards compliance:

   • Complies with FHS and Debian Policy

   • Provided by Debian; assume it complies with Debian library packaging guide.

   • Packaging uses debhelper/quilt

6. Dependencies:

   • No dependencies

7. Background information:

   • Description: pixel-manipulation library for X and cairo. A library for manipulating pixel regions -- a set of Y-X banded rectangles, image compositing using the Porter/Duff model and implicit mask generation for geometric primitives including trapezoids, triangles, and rectangles.
   • This library is also known as libpixman, libpixman-1, libpixman-1-dev, etc.

Reviewers

TimoAaltonen: reviewed, needed for xorg-server 1.4.

MartinPitt: approved