Bug#289078: X font problem - more info
Wow, been a long time since any movement on this bug.
Oddly, I cant find the source of the problem, and havent looked
in years. It almost seems to depend on what is installed - some
systems I install and its fine, others are busted from the start.
Still others I install a buncha new packages, something is updated
and blammo, the fonts go from broken to working, or vice versa. It's
some rendering option/issue thats being tweaked.
These fonts arent specifically basic, but they're the narrowest
legible fonts available in the base X distro, without going to
blocky 5pixel fonts (which would never have enough bitmap space to represent
bold or italics).
/kc
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 01:52:34AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois said:
>Hi,
>
>Ken Chase <math@sizone.org> (15/01/2005):
>> The fact that this appears in an X distro so far from debian's unstable
>> leads me to believe a few things:
>>
>> 1) this isn't debian's fault
>> 2) this will never be properly fixed.
>
>both are probably correct.
>
>> I would suggest debian grab an old working version of the font and
>> inject it artificially into the X package, though I dont know what
>> else this would break in terms of management (or optics as to
>> compliance).
>
>I'd suggest you file a bug upstream if you care enough:
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/
>
>Given those fonts are very basic and very unlikely to be used in a
>real world, I'm tempted to just close that bug if that's not forwarded
>upstream (this is not blackmail).
>
>KiBi.
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