[MacPorts] #66785: cairo, cairo-devel: Update to 1.17.6 (was: Update Cairo to latest (1.17.6))

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#66785: cairo, cairo-devel: Update to 1.17.6
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  Reporter:  Jehan               |      Owner:  ryandesign
      Type:  update              |     Status:  accepted
  Priority:  Normal              |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports               |    Version:
Resolution:                      |   Keywords:
      Port:  cairo, cairo-devel  |
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Changes (by ryandesign):

 * owner:  (none) => ryandesign
 * status:  new => accepted
 * port:  cairo => cairo, cairo-devel
 * cc: mascguy (added)


Comment:

 Thanks for reporting this. I'll get the ports updated to 1.17.6.

 The latest stable version of cairo is 1.16.0. The cairo port is intended
 to follow stable releases but it was erroneously updated to the
 development snapshot 1.17.4. Due to the slow pace of cairo releases and
 the general stability of the cairo software we decided not to revert that
 update. I think there are also some ports (gtk3?) that now rely on new
 features in 1.17.x so reverting the update would have broken that.

 The cairo-devel port is intended to follow development snapshots and is
 also at version 1.17.4 which as you note is the latest one for which a
 tarball was published by the cairo project. That fact is the reason why
 the MacPorts "livecheck" mechanism did not notify us of the existence of
 1.17.6.

 It sounds like the missing tarball problem will be addressed by releasing
 a new 1.17.8 snapshot soon however this will remove the autotools build
 system upon which the MacPorts ports currently rely. This probably means
 that I will not do the update to 1.17.8 or later because of the complexity
 of switching build systems and will leave this to Chris or someone else.

 Since we're already inadvertently on a development snapshot in the cairo
 port I have no objection to updating it to newer snapshots until such a
 time as a newer stable version is released and we can return to following
 only stable versions.

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