Your message dated Tue, 11 Sep 2018 15:06:27 -0400 with message-id <CAAajCMa29XR+2g6R8Sah--ey72Cxab+CKT4n0rhQp==ofsh...@mail.gmail.com> and subject line Re: libfreetype6: font rendering broken in electron applications has caused the Debian Bug report #878929, regarding libfreetype6: font rendering broken in electron applications to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: libfreetype6 Version: 2.8.1-0.1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? * What was the outcome of this action? * What outcome did you expect instead? *** End of the template - remove these template lines *** Font rendering in electron applications is now broken (eg basic electron sample applications/discord). Building manually this problem does not exist: apt-get source libfreetype6 cd freetype-2.8.1/ tar xfj freetype-2.8.1.tar.bz2 cd freetype-2.8.1 ./configure --without-bzip2 --without-harfbuzz make -j4 LD_PRELOAD=./objs/.libs/libfreetype.so ~/discordapp/Discord #or other electron app -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
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--- Begin Message ---The Thunderbird issue is already fixed. Electron 1.9 was fixed and I believe Electron 1.7.10 also includes the fix, months ago. There's nothing really to be done in fontconfig or Debian any more so I'm closing this bug. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha
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