On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 04:14:35PM +0200, Christopher Zimmermann wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to fix monospace bitmap font support for gvim (gtk-2 flavor), > which has been broken since pango 1.44. > It requires several changes: > > 1. fix metrics rounding in vim https://github.com/vim/vim/pull/6168, > already included in our vim port. > 2. fix fonttosfnt in our xenocara or rely on something like fontforge for > the same job. > (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/fonttosfnt/-/merge_requests/7) > 3. fix pango, so it does not accidentally use unsupported pcf fonts when > supported OpenType fonts are present: > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/-/issues/484 > 4. ship bitmap fonts in an OpenType container, too. > > Attached is a diff to update pango to the latest release and backport above > mentioned fix.
This is the latest *development* release, not stable. I don't think we want this in our tree, do we? -- Antoine
