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[ft] Debian Stable Still Has Old FreeType


From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Subject: [ft] Debian Stable Still Has Old FreeType
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 15:12:17 +1300

I’ve just been getting to the bottom of a mysterious discrepancy in the
metrics of a .otf font between machines running Ubuntu 14.04 and those
running Debian (Stable 8.1 and also Unstable).

Turns out Debian Stable is still on version 2.5.2-3 of FreeType,
while Unstable has only just upgraded to 2.6-2. And whereas the
Ubuntu version of FreeType identifies itself as “2.5.2-1ubuntu2.4”, it
exhibits the newer behaviour rather than the older one.

This isn’t the first time I’ve come across a problem with Debian
FreeType, only to discover that upstream/newer versions don’t have that
problem.



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