by stevepusser » 2010-04-01 04:17
Well, I just recompiled the upstream Debian version without any changes for the 1.7.1 Conky. There is a configuration option to turn on the imlib2 support, which the Debian version, and I, did not enable. I tried the 1.7.2 Ubuntu source with that enabled, but got a build failure related to imlib2...which maybe is why it was disabled. I will see if rebuilding a newer imlib2 for Lenny will fix that bug.
And the libc6 problems...many times you can't use a program compiled against a newer libc6, yet if you take the same source code and compile it against your version, it will work fine...That's about the major reason for backporting.
MX Linux packager and developer