Bug#880407: xterm: font issue with FreeType 2.8; should not use the rounded ascender and descender

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Subject: Bug#880407: xterm: font issue with FreeType 2.8; should not use the rounded ascender and descender
From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 11:00:02 +0100
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On 2017-10-31 10:39:28 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> FreeType 2.8 uses different rounding rules for ascender and descender,
[...]

Well, for TrueType fonts (as it was mentioned later). But this seems
to be the most common fonts from FreeType on Debian, and the default
ones.

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