The attached patch updates my previous workaround for the ttf-freefont spacing issue, which is currently affecting the graphical debian-installer. (See <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/03/msg00423.html>, heading "g-i integration".) Again, this is just a workaround, not a real fix. It fixes the spacing problems in every application I tested, with the exception of OpenOffice.org; since OO.o also has the spacing problem with older versions of ttf-freefont, including 20031008-1.1 and 20051102-2 which work fine with other applications. Hopefully this version will also fix the graphical debian-installer, since this version seems to work everywhere 20051102-2 does, and g-i reported success with 20051102-2. The patch includes a changelog entry for an NMU; feel free to adapt it if doing a maintainer upload. If this workaround works for the graphical installer, I plan to seek a sponsor for an NMU to the DELAYED queue. I've put source and binaries at http://freedesktop.org/~josh/ttf-freefont-spacing-problem/ . Could a graphical-installer developer please test the udeb with g-i and see if the spacing problem disappears? - Josh Triplett
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