Package: libfreetype6
Version: 2.8.1-0.1
Severity: normal
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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)
