Hello Nikolay,
I have identified this commit in the OP. It appears that this is an intentional
breakage. Does this really belong into a bugfix release? Or any release ever
(considering the breakage that would ensue)?
Cheers,
Markus
On 8 January 2017 21:05:43 CET, Nikolay Sivov <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 08.01.2017 22:56, Chris Down wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm also having this problem since upgrading to 2.7.1 -- "Terminus"
>> magically became "xos4 Terminus" to fontconfig, even though the
>> underlying files providing that font haven't changed.
>>
>> As a workaround I have added the following to my
>> ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf:
>>
>> <!-- Workaround for
>>
>> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype/2017-01/msg00019.html
>> -->
>> <alias>
>> <family>Terminus</family>
>> <prefer><family>xos4 Terminus</family></prefer>
>> </alias>
>>
>> I'd expect that this breaks a lot of people's configurations, and I'm
>> not sure really what the gain is here. Can we at least wait until a
>new
>> major release (ie. 3.0.0) for such breaking changes? :-)
>
>I haven't check, but this is likely caused by this change:
>
>http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=3576487add2f0e9691e8c43f8b0cd8e61aebf14f
>
>So now if foundry name is present result is "<foundryname> <facename>"
>as opposed to "<facename>" before this commit.
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Chris
>>
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