On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 2:39 AM, Jan Engelhardt <jeng...@inai.de> wrote: >>Why distributions are more conservative about FreeType than kernel is beyond >>me. > > If you have too old a kernel, some of your hardware may not > activate/behave properly. If you have too old a freetype, the worst that > can happen is "just a minor visual glitch".
I am just going to reply with a link http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=font 87 out of 321 font-related CVE's mention FreeType. _______________________________________________ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
