bug#33748: 27.0.50; harfbuzz branch fails to compile

[Glenn Morris]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> The last part, in my interpretation, means 0.9.42 is "good enough",
> since it has the APIs used by the code.

I feel like I'm flogging a dead horse, but to me there's a difference
between "good enough" and "the minimum version that we want to support
going forward". Is anyone going to be testing 0.9.42 on a regular basis?

It looks 0.9.42 and 1.0 were released on the same day, so requiring the
former instead of the latter makes little sense to me.

Debian stable has 1.4.2, RHEL 7 has 1.7.5, Ubuntu 16.04 has 1.0.1,
Ubuntu 18.04 has 1.7.2.

So personally I would set the minimum to 1.4.2 (Jan 2017).

And that's all I have to say about that. :)