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cairo package

  1. Bug #596192
  2. Comment #12

Comment 12 for bug 596192

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Harry (harry33) wrote : Re: [xorg-edgers] new libcairo2 1.9.9 fails to render correctly

So it may very well be that many of the rendering issues with the new development version of cairo are in fact issues in several other "stable" applications using cairo application programming interface (API).
Anyone, feel free to report this upstreams.