Package: fonts-liberation Version: 2.00.1-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Liberation 2 fonts lack the high-quality hinting used in Liberation 1 fonts. Please allow users to choose Liberation 1 fonts. I have attached two tiny snapshots snippets showing a Thunar toolbar with Liberation Sans 11pt at 96 dpi set as the desktop font. Full hinting is set in both cases, with antialiasing and no subpixel hinting. Yes, full hinting, although you would not believe it from looking at the Liberation 2 snapshot, which is a blurry mess. This problem has been known since 2012: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856239 Even Fedora has not switched to Liberation 2, not in Fedora 24, or even in the upcoming Fedora 25. If Red Hat will not eat their own dog food, why should Debian? https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/liberation-fonts Please either downgrade fonts-liberation to use 1.07-4 or split these two fonts into two different packages as they are quite different. Kind regards, Ben. -- Package-specific info: Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==============-============-============-================================= ii fontconfig 2.11.0-6.6 amd64 generic font configuration librar ii libfreetype6:a 2.6.3-3+b1 amd64 FreeType 2 font engine, shared li ii libfreetype6:i 2.6.3-3+b1 i386 FreeType 2 font engine, shared li ii libxft2:amd64 2.3.2-1 amd64 FreeType-based font drawing libra -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) -- no debconf information
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