Re: Hinting regression in Ubuntu 23.04

[Craig]

possibly, but the last few people that care about non-antialiased fonts 
are probably on this email list.

I'm curious if they have motivation to make bad fonts with no hinting?  
does it somehow help when/if anti-aliasing is turned on?

-craig

On 5/4/23 06:20, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear Martin, dear Craig,
>
>
> Am 04.05.23 um 15:05 schrieb Craig:
> > this was exactly my observation as well... remove fonts-liberation2. 
> > it's increasingly
> > difficult with containerization/snaps, etc.
> >
> > r,
> > -craig
> >
> > On 5/4/23 03:33, Martin van Es wrote:
> > > On Thursday, May 4, 2023 9:52:43 AM CEST Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > > > I think you misremember, for the reason mentioned above – just to be
> > > > sure I've checked now that this variation font has no B/W hinting
> > > > instructions.  Its hinting was certainly equally bad with an older
> > > > version of FreeType.
> > > Ok, I solved the problem. There were many coincidences playing a 
> > > role in the
> > > original report.
> > >
> > > For starters the (real) regression in fonts-ubuntu triggered my 
> > > attention, but
> > > unlucky testing against Liberation Sans revealed a change in hinting 
> > > between
> > > fonts-liberation and fonts-liberation2, which wasn't installed on my 
> > > reference
> > > system. fonts-liberation2 lacks proper hinting (which showed on my 
> > > 23.04
> > > system) but fonts-liberation is properly hinted (on the 22.04 
> > > machine). Once
> > > installed, fonts-liberation2 overrides all Liberation fonts, except for
> > > Liberation Sans Narrow.
> > >
> > > Removing fonts-liberation2 and downgrading fonts-ubuntu to fonts-
> > > ubuntu_0.83-6ubuntu1_all.deb seems to solve all the reported problems.
> > >
> > > My apologies for the noise and thanks for adding your thoughts to this!
>
> Are the Ubuntu folks aware of this problem? If not, please create an 
> issue in their (or Debian’s?) bug tracker [1].
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Paul
>
>
> [1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/