Adeodato Simó wrote: > unmerge 377147 > retitle 377147 libcairo 1.2.0: regression: gtk apps are not anti-aliased if > anti-aliasing is disabled in ~/.qt/qtrc > notforwarded 377147 > unblock 377879 by 377147 > unblock 379482 by 377147 > > retitle 376714 libcairo 1.2.0 text disappears after first word if > anti-aliasing disabled > retitle 378005 libcairo 1.2.0 text disappears after first word if > anti-aliasing disabled > severity 376714 serious > tags 376714 fixed-upstream patch > thanks
All this reminds me why I hate the debian bug system. wtf was all that? > Hi. There are currently three merged bugs open against libcairo, all of > them forwarded to upstream #7494: > > #376714: Cairo 1.2.0 fonts disappear after first word > #377147: firefox: text rendering badly damaged > #378005: libcairo2 problem with non-anti-aliased text > > As can be read in upsream #7494, only the "disappearing text in > non-antialiasing mode" is being considered there, so I am unmerging > #377147, and will follow-up to it separately. > > I've also rebuilt libcairo2 applying the patch provided by upstream [1], > and I confirm it solves the disappearing text problem. Since I really > think that bug makes the package unreleasable, I've raised its severity > to serious. > > HTH, > > [1] > http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=cairo;a=commitdiff;h=456cdb3058f3b416109a9600167cd8842300ae14;hp=8601c2c68306c956744399099a941363d446b906 Thanks for testing the patch that was created while I was sleep 7 hours ago. I can't really have been expected to do that myself :) I'll consider applying it, but I'll see if a new upstream release is imminent. I am tracking the upstream bugs closely. Dave
