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Source: freetype
Version: 2.5.2-3
Severity: important
Hi,
After some minor changes in a forum of a lug, I found that I could no longer
read it in Debian (neither with chromium, nor firefox, neither in jessie nor
in sid), while the text was readable in Ubuntu, Arch and other distros (used
among the other lug members). The forum changed to a different font so the
page is readable in Debian again, but the issue is reproducible with:
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Fira+Sans which is showing the character
list blank and the only preview that seems to work is the Light Italic one,
compare this to https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Source+Sans+Pro which shows
the full output.
Using the chromium inspect object, I manage to obtain the corresponding woff2
url:
https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/firasans/v6/EjsrzDkQUQCDwsBtLpcVQVtXRa8TVwTICgirnJhmVJw.woff2
Using: https://github.com/google/woff2 I converted the woff2 font to ttf and
the decompressed ttf showed the same behaviour (It can't be rendered in Debian,
but it renders fine in Ubuntu).
Using fontforge the font can be edited with no problems in any distro.
For convenience I've left the decompressed ttf file in:
http://freak.gnuservers.com.ar/~maxy/debian/fira.ttf
I'm not completely sure if the problem is really a bug in freetype or in some
other library. Please reassign as you see fit.
Happy hacking,
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500,
'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, armhf
Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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--- Begin Message ---
Thank you for the bug report.
I am unable to reproduce the bug you describe. That said, given the
package version and age of the bug report, this is not surprising.
There have been a few reports similar to yours recently, with all bug
reports relating to web fonts.
The rendering problem in similar cases was fixed upstream, with
FreeType 2.9.1-4 containing a verified patch. FreeType 2.9.1-4 is in
Testing.
I have submitted a diff so that the relevant fix enters Debian Buster
(and Stretch).
Kind regards,
Hugh
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