Bug#262298: reportbug is strange

[Marius <marius@patikimi.lt>]

On Friday 13 August 2004 11:20, Branden Robinson wrote:
> retitle 262298 xserver-xfree86: something is wrong with the way fonts are
> reported tag 262298 + moreinfo
> thanks
>
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 05:54:48PM +0300, Marius wrote:
> > here is discussion about bug
> > http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=65
>
> That is a long discussion thread, with much discussion of Motif and Xbae
> mixed in with the discussions about the X server.
>
> Can you please summarize what the perceived problem with the X server is?

Well, thinking more about these issues, I believe Xbae is buggy, too. Granted, 
negative min width in this specific case is an X server bug, but in general, 
negative values are legitimate when a font has all or some chars with the 
RtoL directionality.

I suspect it's a freetype module bug.

http://www.mail-archive.com/lesstif%40hungry.com/msg00025.html