On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 18:21 +0100, Christophe Rhodes wrote: Hi,
> Well, no, obviously it doesn't /prove/ anything, just as the original > bug report didn't prove that it was in fact a bug in Vera -- except > that there is a problem in the interaction of Vera and > freetype-as-distributed-by-Debian, and that this problem is not > present in the interaction of Vera and > freetype-not-as-distributed-by-Debian. As matter of fact if you tell fontconfig to use the auto hinter for Vera you won't see this problem with the Debian FreeType package either. But of course switching to the auto hinter means that a) FreeType's bytecode interpreter and b) Vera's hinting instructions won't be used anymore. So the bug may be in either... > > It's still just as likely that it's a bug in Vera's hinting, which > > while it's generally of very high quality definitely does have a > > couple of bugs. > > I can't estimate these probabilities as accurately as you can. I know for a fact that Vera has a number of hinting bugs, but on the other hand FreeType has had its share of bugs, too (plus the Debian package isn't exactly up to date). So I'd say it's about 50:50. ;) > Is it possible to make the freetype people aware of this bug report, > nevertheless? If a reassignment isn't the way to do that, maybe a Cc > or some similar thing would be? FreeType currently is basically unmaintained in Debian, however Will Newton said he was going to pick it up, so I'm ccing him. Will, see the bug log for details; free feel to reassign this if you feel it's likely to be a FreeType bug. -Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
