Wow, been a long time since any movement on this bug. Oddly, I cant find the source of the problem, and havent looked in years. It almost seems to depend on what is installed - some systems I install and its fine, others are busted from the start. Still others I install a buncha new packages, something is updated and blammo, the fonts go from broken to working, or vice versa. It's some rendering option/issue thats being tweaked.
These fonts arent specifically basic, but they're the narrowest legible fonts available in the base X distro, without going to blocky 5pixel fonts (which would never have enough bitmap space to represent bold or italics). /kc On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 01:52:34AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois said: >Hi, > >Ken Chase <[email protected]> (15/01/2005): >> The fact that this appears in an X distro so far from debian's unstable >> leads me to believe a few things: >> >> 1) this isn't debian's fault >> 2) this will never be properly fixed. > >both are probably correct. > >> I would suggest debian grab an old working version of the font and >> inject it artificially into the X package, though I dont know what >> else this would break in terms of management (or optics as to >> compliance). > >I'd suggest you file a bug upstream if you care enough: > http://bugs.freedesktop.org/ > >Given those fonts are very basic and very unlikely to be used in a >real world, I'm tempted to just close that bug if that's not forwarded >upstream (this is not blackmail). > >KiBi. -- Ken Chase - [email protected] skype:kenchase23 +1 416 897 6284 Toronto Canada Heavy Computing - Clued bandwidth, colocation and managed linux VPS @151 Front St. W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
