On 08.01.2017 23:09, Markus Unterwaditzer wrote: > Hello Nikolay, > > I have identified this commit in the OP.
Ah, sorry about that, I missed it. > It appears that this is an > intentional breakage. Does this really belong into a bugfix release? Or > any release ever (considering the breakage that would ensue)? I don't know where it belongs. According to commit message it's an old change, that OpenSUSE was supposedly carrying all this time. Maybe something less invasive could be worked out, like using foundry name only when face name is too generic, which is the original issue this patch fixes. > > Cheers, > Markus > > On 8 January 2017 21:05:43 CET, Nikolay Sivov <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 08.01.2017 22:56, Chris Down wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm also having this problem since upgrading to 2.7.1 -- "Terminus" > magically became "xos4 Terminus" to fontconfig, even though the > underlying files providing that font haven't changed. > > As a workaround I have added the following to my > ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf: > > <!-- Workaround for > > https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype/2017-01/msg00019.html > --> > <alias> > <family>Terminus</family> > <prefer><family>xos4 Terminus</family></prefer> > </alias> > > I'd expect that this breaks a lot of people's configurations, > and I'm > not sure really what the gain is here. Can we at least wait > until a new > major release (ie. 3.0.0) for such breaking changes? :-) > > > I haven't check, but this is likely caused by this change: > > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=3576487add2f0e9691e8c43f8b0cd8e61aebf14f > > So now if foundry name is present result is "<foundryname> <facename>" > as opposed to "<facename>" before this commit. > > > Thanks, > > Chris > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Freetype mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Freetype mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype > > > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ Freetype mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype
