Please backport pango1.0 1.42.4-3 (main) from cosmic to bionic.

[Hachmann]

Reason for the backport:
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The next Inkscape release, Inkscape 1.0, will contain new functionality (variable fonts) that will only work with a more current version of pango. The font work is one of the major new features. In addition to that, if it were backported before the actual release, it would help us recruit testers for the feature, if the new version were available on Ubuntu LTS.
This requires at least pango 1.41.1 (http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Variable_Fonts_support).

Testing:
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ppa link: https://launchpad.net/~marenhachmann/+archive/ubuntu/pango

* bionic:
[x] Package builds without modification
[x] libpango-1.0-0 installs cleanly and runs
[ ] libpangoft2-1.0-0-dbgsym installs cleanly and runs - not available from the ppa, how do I get this? And test it?
[x] libpangoft2-1.0-0 installs cleanly and runs
[x] libpango1.0-doc installs cleanly and runs
[ ] pango1.0-tests-dbgsym installs cleanly and runs - not available, like above
[ ] libpangoxft-1.0-0-dbgsym installs cleanly and runs - not available, see above
[x] libpangoxft-1.0-0 installs cleanly and runs
[x] gir1.2-pango-1.0 installs cleanly and runs
[x] libpangocairo-1.0-0 installs cleanly and runs
[ ] libpango1.0-udeb installs cleanly and runs - not available, see above
[ ] libpangocairo-1.0-0-dbgsym installs cleanly and runs - not available, see above
[x] libpango1.0-dev installs cleanly and runs
[ ] libpango-1.0-0-dbgsym installs cleanly and runs - not available, see above
[ ] pango1.0-tests installs cleanly and runs - not available, see above
[ ] libpango1.0-0 installs cleanly and runs - it installs (transitional package), but also pulls with it a package from bionic (libpangox-1.0-0)
[ ] libpango1.0-dev-dbgsym installs cleanly and runs - not available

Reverse dependencies:
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The following reverse-dependencies need to be tested against the new version of pango1.0. For reverse-build-dependencies (-Indep), please test that the package still builds against the new pango1.0. For reverse-dependencies, please test that the version of the package currently in the release still works with the new pango1.0 installed. Reverse- Recommends, Suggests, and Enhances don't need to be tested, and are listed for completeness-sake.

This list is huge - no idea how to test it all! Seems like everything depends on pango... I installed the backported pango from my ppa about two weeks ago, and have been using the computer normally (mostly web browsing, and installing lots of new applications, because I have just switched to bionic) since then. None of the applications exhibited any font issues, at least.

I have appended the list as a separate file, to not exceed any size limits of this report.

[Dan Streetman (ddstreet)]

Hello,

the backports process has recently been updated, please see the new documentation:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports

I'm closing this bug, but please feel free to open a new bug (or reopen this bug) using the new process, if appropriate.