On 8/4/19 6:17 PM, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote:
I'd like to start a discussion here on reverting Pango.
As noted in the comments section here, this version of Pango drops
support for bitmap fonts:
https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2019/07/27/more-text-rendering-updates/
This causes terminal emulators to display empty boxes in double-width
spaces, as just one example. In addition, there are countless
rendering bugs here:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/issues
The developers are also recommending an unreleased version of Cairo to
fix "rendering issues" in some of those issues. I don't think we want
that.
I'm most definitely sure that removing Python support from GIMP is NOT
the way to go. Note that there is a bug here for moving to PyGObject
from PyGTK, but little to no progress:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/issues/339
I propose that we revert Pango to 1.42.x from 1.44.3 because of their
dropping of bitmap font support, recommendation to use an unstable
cairo, problems with PyGTK, and rendering issues.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/issues/386
I forgot to add that in - Type1 fonts in GTK+2 are affected as well.
I will revert to pango-1.42.4 tomorrow unless there are objections. We
are a little less than two weeks away from package freeze for the next
release and it doesn't look like this will get resolved before then.
-- Bruce
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