Package: xterm Version: 330-1 Severity: important FreeType 2.8 uses different rounding rules for ascender and descender, so that one can now have
(src->ascent + src->descent) > src->height in CACHE_XFT from fontutils.c (only because of rounding), which yields a spurious blank line between lines of text. The consequences are: 1. Tables look a bit ugly. 2. Windows (with the same number of text lines) are unnecessarily higher than before. 3. This breaks existing configurations. For instance, the xterms started at the beginning of my X session appear partly off-screen. Upstream now recommends to use the values from the FT_Face structure and scale them manually: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Global size metrics values in the `FT_Size_Metrics' structure can be different for TrueType fonts. Reason is that in older FreeType versions the metrics were rounded differently to integer pixels compared to all other font formats, yielding an inconsistent behaviour if you used non-native hinting. Starting with this version, global size metrics for TrueType fonts are handled the same as other font formats: `ascender' gets rounded up, `descender' getsrounded down, `height' gets normally rounded, and `max_advance' gets normally rounded, too. If you need more precise values of (global) ascender, descender, height, or `max_advance', please take the corresponding values from the `FT_Face' structure and scale them manually. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ See the discussion: https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?52165 Here's my original Debian bug report about FreeType: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=866960 -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=POSIX (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages xterm depends on: ii libc6 2.24-17 ii libfontconfig1 2.12.3-0.2 ii libice6 2:1.0.9-2 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20170902-1 ii libutempter0 1.1.6-3 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.4-3 ii libxaw7 2:1.0.13-1+b2 ii libxft2 2.3.2-1+b2 ii libxinerama1 2:1.1.3-1+b3 ii libxmu6 2:1.1.2-2 ii libxpm4 1:3.5.12-1 ii libxt6 1:1.1.5-1 ii xbitmaps 1.1.1-2 Versions of packages xterm recommends: ii x11-utils 7.7+3+b1 Versions of packages xterm suggests: pn xfonts-cyrillic <none> -- no debconf information