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Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]>
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Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 4 Aug 2006 13:12:12 -0500
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Jon,

Sounds reasonable.  Will do.

-connie
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Jon Peatfield wrote:

> On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Connie Sieh wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Jan Iven wrote:
> >
> >> Just a quick heads-up for things we have seen with the 3.0.8 quarterly
> >> update:
> <snip>
> >> * the freetype library had some issues with TTF fonts, we noticed this
> >> via some PHP code/broken imagemaps. An updated version of freetype is
> >> available and fixes this.
> >
> > Will put in this new version because of this?
> 
> I assume that this is related to RHBA-2006-0620 which says:
> 
>    A recent Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 security update of freetype
>    (RHSA-2006:0500) caused an ABI change to the library, resulting in
>    various crashes throughout the desktop.
> 
> Therefore freetype needs to update to freetype-2.1.4-5.el3.src.rpm on 
> anything that applied the update to freetype-2.1.4-4.0.rhel3.2.src.rpm 
> (this was a security update so was released for SL30...)
> 
> Although RHBA-2006-0620 is *not* a security release (it is marked as 
> bugfix!), it fixes a problem caused by a security update so probably 
> *should* be considered for release for all SL3* versions...
> 
> (In my opinion anyway)!
> 
> 

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