Update libgdiplus in Mono repositories, Linux Distributions & Homebrew about libgdiplus HOT 22 CLOSED

The current plan is to bump version number along with Mono 2018-08 branch. I know it's way overdue, but better late than never.

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So, 5.6 is about a year old, and there have been ~300 commits since, fixing quite a lot of (compat) bugs.

So I'd say there's a new new version worth shipping :).

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For those on Ubuntu, I've added the libgdiplus package to our PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~quamotion/+archive/ubuntu/

We also have a repository with CentOS builds of libgdiplus although it's a bit outdated:
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:qmfrederik/libgdiplus

If you want to create your own PPA with libgdiplus, here are the steps you can follow:

1. Get the build dependencies and the source for the current version of libgdiplus in Ubuntu

   sudo apt-get build-dep libgdiplus
   apt-get source libgdiplus
   

2. Update the libgdiplus sources with the latest sources from master:

   wget https://github.com/mono/libgdiplus/archive/master.tar.gz -O libgdiplus-5.6.tar.gz
   cd libgdiplus-4.2
   uupdate ../libgdiplus-5.6.tar.gz
   cd ../libgdiplus-5.6
   rm -rf debian/patches/*
   

3. Create release notes. Make sure to target xenial and provide a valid e-mail address

   dch
   

4. Build a signed source package.

   debuild -S --force-sign -kXXYYZZ00
   

   Where XXYYZZ00 is your gpg key id. If you're on Ubuntu, make sure your key is present in the /usr/bin/gpg2 -K output, there are two versions of gpg!
5. Push the package to your PPA

   cd ..
   dput ppa:[your_ppa]/ppa libgdiplus_5.6-0ubuntu1_source.changes
   

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Cool! Would that mean the packages at https://download.mono-project.com/repo/ubuntu/pool/main/libg/libgdiplus/ will also be updated?

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I assume that they would, but I am not the one doing the packaging :)

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@filipnavara do you know about planned release date?
for some reasons build from sources unsuitable solution for my project

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Mono has been branched for 2018-08 already, so maybe it's the time.

Unfortunately there are currently some issues preventing builds. The bzip.org domain name expired yesterday and the Windows packages use vcpkg which tried to download the bzip library from there. Similarly, macOS builds are broken because of botched HarfBuzz package updates, which needs to be propagated to Homebrew. Both of these issues are being worked on and should be fixed shortly (estimate: tomorrow).

@directhex @marek-safar Can we bump the libgdiplus version? I'd prefer to wait till Monday until we are sure the build dependency issues are sorted out though...

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Will the ubuntu/debian repositories be updated?

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I'm a bit swamped this week, but I'll try to get on this.

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@filipnavara The vcpkg bzip issues should be resolved :). Note that you will need to update your vcpkg version to get the fix (for example, on appveyor you'll need to git checkout 08f5d7b65c456f571980ec212720402069b01732 because it is not automatically updated).

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@ras0219-msft Thanks for notice! I saw it was fixed in your Git, but it took me a little while to figure out why the fix was not picked up automatically on the CI machines. Apparently we checkout old version of vcpkg due to microsoft/vcpkg#3631. I modified the script to cherry-pick the bzip2 commit, but it is only a temporary solution.

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OK, so, looking at this issue.

I already updated libgdiplus on Linux to 5.6 a while back, and it shipped in 5.10+

Is there a new new release to ship? Or, given the date on the bug, is that new enough?

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@directhex I see you've bumped the version number in 70711a3. Any chance we can get a 5.23 tag, too? This would help get the package updated in Homebrew.

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We'll need it bumped in the Mac versions first. I'm sure I did a PR to bump it... https://github.com/mono/mono/blob/master/packaging/MacSDK/libgdiplus.py is old though

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mono/mono#12339

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Could version 5.8 be tagged please?

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There's some background stuff @akoeplinger is working on, which is why I haven't tagged/shipped stuff right now

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Given we have tagged and released recent version of libgdiplus to the Mono repositories I'm closing this issue :)

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Well, Debian/Ubuntu are still on version 4.2 of libgdiplus. It would be good if someone can bump the Debian version of libgdiplus.

And it turns out @directhex is listed as a maintainer at https://packages.debian.org/buster/libgdiplus 😄 . (If there's a more structured way for me to propose a libgdiplus update to Debian, let me know).

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Are the daily bugfix releases over? 😅

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Yes, for today. ;-)

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@directhex Well, Debian has version 4.2, which is 4 years old. It would be great if at least Ubuntu 20.04 LTS has a more recent version of libgdiplus 😃

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