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Re: [ft-devel] [ft] [ft-announce] Announcing FreeType version 2.6.1
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Jan Engelhardt |
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Re: [ft-devel] [ft] [ft-announce] Announcing FreeType version 2.6.1 |
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Thu, 8 Oct 2015 08:39:36 +0200 (CEST) |
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Alpine 2.20 (LSU 67 2015-01-07) |
On Thursday 2015-10-08 03:54, Alexei Podtelezhnikov wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Behdad Esfahbod
><address@hidden> wrote:
>> Can you please make more quick-and-small releases for important fixes?
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>It does not matter considering that
>Fedora 22 runs 2.5.5, which is progressive in comparison to
>Android 5.1.1 runs 2.5.3
>Ubuntu Vivid runs 2.5.2
>iOS runs 2.4.7 last time I checked
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>Why distributions are more conservative about FreeType than kernel is beyond
>me.
If you have too old a kernel, some of your hardware may not
activate/behave properly. If you have too old a freetype, the worst that
can happen is "just a minor visual glitch".