I have successfully backported a patch coming from libfreetype6 upstream into the current version of debian. I've tested it with Dina which is affected by this bug (pcf version) and it works fine.
I have made a small change to the upstream patch: the Changelog file differs thus I had to change the two lines of context. I took the debian source, added one line at the end of debian/patches-freetype/series: 0001-pcf-Fix-Savannah-bug-43774.patch Then wrote the adapted upstream patch (attached to this email, commit 74af85c4b62b35e55b0ce9dec55ee10cbc4962a2) into debian/patches-freetype/0001-pcf-Fix-Savannah-bug-43774.patch I proceed to compile my package with dpkg-buildpackage and installed it successfully with dpkg -i that's all. I suggest to test this change and include it in the jessie release. Thank you.
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