[cairo] Release management for Cairo

[Uli Schlachter]

Am 27.04.21 um 14:01 schrieb Emmanuele Bassi:
> On Mon, 26 Apr 2021 at 17:03, Uli Schlachter <psychon at znc.in> wrote:
[...]
> Having said that: if it's feasible to build a cairo-xlib version that uses
> XCB on the backend—i.e. expose the cairo-xlib API but internally use
> XCB

This (of course!) already exists, see --enable-xlib-xcb.

> and it's possible to verify that it does not introduce regressions,
> then I don't see why anybody should block that effort. Bugs are bugs,
> whether they are known or not.

Once upon a time, Arch Linux used --enable-xlib-xcb. I don't know
details, but Firefox was sad. The result was Arch Linux using
--disable-xcb... :-(

Cheers,
Uli
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