Bug#1001793: mate-terminal: Wrong context menu font when using libvte-2.91-0[-common] 0.66.1-1 or 0.66.2-1

[Faidon Liambotis <paravoid@debian.org>]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 12:29:48PM +0100, Jasmin68k wrote:
> Using Debian sid, running apt-get upgrade, which installed
> libvte-2.91-0 and libvte-2.91-common 0.66.1-1.  After that, the
> context (right-click) menu font in mate-terminal became monospace,
> probably the same system wide monospace font, mate-terminal is using
> for terminal output, instead of the regular system wide application
> font.

This seems like a pretty serious UX issue. It also seems this was
reported against Ubuntu, and fixed there with 1.26.0-1ubuntu2.

IMHO the fix for this should make it to bookworm. Happy to do an NMU
with the Ubuntu patch if that's the maintainers lack the time or so
desire.

Thanks,
Faidon