Bug#876132: freetype: Please upgrade to 2.8.1

2017-09-30 Thread Hugh McMaster 
On Friday, 29 September 2017, 15:00:02 +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> Yes I saw that, I already extended the delay for 5 days the other day.

Thanks for extending the delay after I messaged you on IRC.

> It seems that wine is already patched upstream, so fixing it in debian 
> shouldn't be too difficult (I guess).

Wine should work without any issues since the upstream developers fixed the 
FTBFS and runtime bugs caused by the freetype upgrade. The upstream Wine 
team is still working on some minor font issues, but these will be fixed in git 
early next week.

> Some people were complaining about issues with firefox/thunderbird, but 
> I cannot reproduce these on my machines.

Firefox fixed their font rendering issue very quickly. But I don't know what 
was wrong with Thunderbird.

And as an aside, I'm going to rebase the multi-arch freetype patches on 
Laurent's NMU once it enters Sid. (I've improved the patches over the
current version in #870618.)

Bug#876132: freetype: Please upgrade to 2.8.1

2017-09-29 Thread Laurent Bigonville 

Le 29/09/17 à 14:48, Gianfranco Costamagna a écrit :

On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 05:11:39 + Hugh McMaster  
wrote:

On Monday, 18 September 2017 at 23:35:20 +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote:

I've uploaded the new version to the DELAYED/10 queue, please test

I think we should hold this version for a while. It seems 2.8.1 is causing
build problems and runtime crashes on Arch systems with Wine.

See, for example:
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43715
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43716



Laurent did you see the above? I rescheduled to deferred/15, just to make you 
aware of this possible side-effect

At lest we should patch wine before trying to get new freetype in (assuming 
nothing else will break)


Yes I saw that, I already extended the delay for 5 days the other day.

It seems that wine is already patched upstream, so fixing it in debian 
shouldn't be too difficult (I guess).


Some people were complaining about issues with firefox/thunderbird, but 
I cannot reproduce these on my machines.

Bug#876132: freetype: Please upgrade to 2.8.1

2017-09-18 Thread Hugh McMaster 
On Monday, 18 September 2017 at 23:35:20 +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> I've uploaded the new version to the DELAYED/10 queue, please test

I think we should hold this version for a while. It seems 2.8.1 is causing 
build problems and runtime crashes on Arch systems with Wine.

See, for example:
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43715
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43716

Bug#876132: freetype: Please upgrade to 2.8.1

2017-09-18 Thread Laurent Bigonville 

I've uploaded the new version to the DELAYED/10 queue, please test

Bug#876132: freetype: Please upgrade to 2.8.1

2017-09-18 Thread Laurent Bigonville 
Source: freetype
Version: 2.8-0.2
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

2.8.1 has been released and according to the website it provides:

FreeType 2.8.1 has been released. This is mainly a maintenance release
with one important change: By default, FreeType now offers high quality
LCD-optimized output without resorting to ClearType techniques of
resolution tripling and filtering. In this method, called Harmony, each
color channel is generated separately after shifting the glyph outline,
capitalizing on the fact that the color grids on LCD panels are shifted
by a third of a pixel. This output is indistinguishable from ClearType
with a light 3-tap filter.

Other changes: https://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/freetype2/2.8.1/

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 
'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)