Thanks for your comments, Martin. I for one haven't considered extensive testing yet. The reason for the proposal is to prevent a regression wrt Chinese rendering (due to new default font), and we have a positive report from a Chinese user at bug #1468027 (comment #105).
As regards your last question, no changes were made to debian/control, so AFAICT going back to 2.11.1 if necessary would be easy. The reporter of this bug report, Mingye Wang, has identified a bunch of upstream commits (attached as patches to this bug report), and patching 2.11.1 with them *might* be an alternative to upgrading. We haven't tested that approach successfully yet. However, given the number of commits that would need to be cherry picked, I'm not sure it would be a safer solution. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to fontconfig in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1556457 Title: [FFe] Demilight (OS/2 weight=350) confuses fontconfig Status in Fontconfig: Fix Released Status in fontconfig package in Ubuntu: New Status in fontconfig package in Arch Linux: New Bug description: [FFe request comment] Upgrading to fontconfig 2.11.94 is proposed as a fix of this bug, including a fix of certain font weight issues due to the switch from fonts-droid to fonts-noto-cjk for Chinese (discussed at bug #1468027) where we haven't found any way to work around the problem. The proposed upload is available in this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/fontconfig-test2 Changes are listed in the attachment upstream_git-log.txt [Original description including updates] See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81453 and bug 1468027. Fontconfig lacks support for many OpenType/TrueType OS/2 font weight values. This causes a bunch of problems, like mixing up Demilight (weight=350) and Regular (weight=400). Although it's possible to write (dirty?) hacks for deb-packed fonts, this still causes problems for otherwise sourced fonts. Archlinux: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/48550 (fix released, upgraded to 2.11.94) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/fontconfig/+bug/1556457/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
