Package: xscreensaver Version: 5.45+dfsg1-1 Severity: normal I can see that xscreensaver now recommends bitmap fonts (xfonts-100dpi) while it supports scalable fonts. Scalable fonts are of better quality, thus should be used by default and xfonts-100dpi should not be needed in the default configuration, and users should not have bitmap fonts installed automatically (except by packages that support only X fonts). Bitmap fonts are also hardly readable on HiDPI screens.
Note 1: If the user wishes to use alternative fonts, it is up to him to install them. Note 2: Having bitmap fonts installed can badly affect some applications that try to find the "best" font (e.g. based on supported glyphs, even when such glyphs are actually not useful for the user). For instance: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=298068 -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.9.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages xscreensaver depends on: ii init-system-helpers 1.60 ii libatk1.0-0 2.36.0-2 ii libc6 2.31-5 ii libcrypt1 1:4.4.17-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.66.4-1 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.32-5 ii libpam0g 1.3.1-5 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.46.2-3 ii libsystemd0 247.1-3 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.12-1 ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1.1 ii libxi6 2:1.7.10-1 ii libxinerama1 2:1.1.4-2 ii libxml2 2.9.10+dfsg-6.3+b1 ii libxmu6 2:1.1.2-2+b3 ii libxrandr2 2:1.5.1-1 ii libxt6 1:1.2.0-1 ii libxxf86vm1 1:1.1.4-1+b2 ii xscreensaver-data 5.45+dfsg1-1 Versions of packages xscreensaver recommends: ii libjpeg-turbo-progs 1:2.0.5-1.1 ii perl 5.32.0-6 ii wamerican [wordlist] 2019.10.06-1 pn xfonts-100dpi <none> Versions of packages xscreensaver suggests: ii firefox [www-browser] 84.0-3 hi firefox-esr [www-browser] 52.9.0esr-1~deb9u1 pn fortune <none> pn gdm3 | kdm-gdmcompat <none> ii lynx [www-browser] 2.9.0dev.6-1 ii opera-stable [www-browser] 73.0.3856.284 pn qcam | streamer <none> ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.3-38+b1 pn xdaliclock <none> pn xfishtank <none> pn xscreensaver-data-extra <none> pn xscreensaver-gl <none> pn xscreensaver-gl-extra <none> -- no debconf information -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
