Even if 2.11.94 is a development release, the answer you got from a fontconfig developer (<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/94505#c5>) is striking. The alternative, i.e. patching the "ancient" 2.11.1 with multiple selected commits, is also risky business.
As regards <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/94427>, I'm not able to tell how big problem it is in practice. Wouldn't that one happen with your proposed patches? I'll talk to someone on IRC (#ubuntu-desktop) tomorrow, and get their view. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to fontconfig in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1556457 Title: [FFe] Demilight (OS/2 weight=350) confuses fontconfig Status in Fontconfig: Fix Released Status in fontconfig package in Ubuntu: New Status in fontconfig package in Arch Linux: New Bug description: [FFe request comment] Upgrading to fontconfig 2.11.94 is proposed as a fix of this bug, including a fix of certain font weight issues due to the switch from fonts-droid to fonts-noto-cjk for Chinese (discussed at bug #1468027) where we haven't found any way to work around the problem. The proposed upload is available in this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/fontconfig-test2 Changes are listed in the attachment upstream_git-log.txt [Original description including updates] See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81453 and bug 1468027. Fontconfig lacks support for many OpenType/TrueType OS/2 font weight values. This causes a bunch of problems, like mixing up Demilight (weight=350) and Regular (weight=400). Although it's possible to write (dirty?) hacks for deb-packed fonts, this still causes problems for otherwise sourced fonts. Archlinux: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/48550 (fix released, upgraded to 2.11.94) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/fontconfig/+bug/1556457/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
