Bug#998064: sm: fails to display text containing letter 'e' due to errors in libfreetype after upgrade

2021-10-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2021-10-31 at 21:08 +1100, Hugh McMaster wrote: > I'll keep investigating. There's a few options to try yet. Thanks. If it helps I'm not using a VM and I am using an Intel GPU. If you have any idea how to trace the error with FT2_DEBUG, I will be happy to recompile freetype and provide

Bug#998064: sm: fails to display text containing letter 'e' due to errors in libfreetype after upgrade

2021-10-31 Thread Hugh McMaster
On Sun, 31 Oct 2021 at 01:36, Paul Wise wrote: > > I figured out that this command causes the issue: > >$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface font-antialiasing rgba > > and this command fixes the issue: > >$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface font-antialiasing grayscale

Bug#998064: sm: fails to display text containing letter 'e' due to errors in libfreetype after upgrade

2021-10-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2021-10-30 at 21:26 +1100, Hugh McMaster wrote: > With which fonts are you seeing the problem? Lots of different ones, DejaVu Sans for example. > I'll spin up a GNOME VM and report back. I figured out that this command causes the issue:    $ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface

Bug#998064: sm: fails to display text containing letter 'e' due to errors in libfreetype after upgrade

2021-10-30 Thread Hugh McMaster
Hi Paul, On Fri, 29 Oct 2021 at 21:21, Paul Wise wrote: > > Not sure if this issue is a bug in sm or freetype, please reassign. > > Since the upgrade of freetype from 2.10.4+dfsg-1 to 2.11.0+dfsg-1, > whenever I attempt to display a string in sm containing letter e, > either via the command-line

Bug#998064: sm: fails to display text containing letter 'e' due to errors in libfreetype after upgrade

2021-10-29 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 29 October 2021 at 18:14, Paul Wise wrote: | Package: sm, libfreetype6 | Version: 0.26-1, 2.11.0+dfsg-1 | Severity: important | File: /usr/games/sm | Usertags: regression Maintainer of _source package_ sm here: bad habit, 15 years ago binary packages like r-cran-sm used their upstream source

Bug#998064: sm: fails to display text containing letter 'e' due to errors in libfreetype after upgrade

2021-10-29 Thread Paul Wise
Package: sm, libfreetype6 Version: 0.26-1, 2.11.0+dfsg-1 Severity: important File: /usr/games/sm Usertags: regression Not sure if this issue is a bug in sm or freetype, please reassign. Since the upgrade of freetype from 2.10.4+dfsg-1 to 2.11.0+dfsg-1, whenever I attempt to display a string in