[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#736346: dejavu: Ligatures (such as fi, ff, and ffi) are displayed as foreign characters in iceweasel.

[Alex Rozenshteyn]

Package: fonts-dejavu
Version: 2.34-1
Severity: important
File: dejavu

Dear Maintainer,
When I upgraded my system (in particular, the dejavu fonts to 2.34), I noticed that in iceweasel, certain web pages (Screenshot of http://www.lafn.org/~keglerron/kegler.html is attached; note "offered", "Griffin", and "confirmation") display text incorrectly.

by changing display font, and by forcibly uninstalling the dejavu font packages, I concluded that the problem specifically affected the dejavu serif font.

(Manually added information about Iceweasel)
-- Extensions information
Name: Adblock Plus
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{d10d0bf8-f5b5-c8b4-a8b2-2b9879e08c5d}.xpi
Status: enabled

Name: Default theme
Location: /usr/lib/iceweasel/browser/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}
Package: iceweasel
Status: enabled

Name: NoScript
Location: /usr/share/mozilla/extensions/{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}/{73a6fe31-595d-460b-a920-fcc0f8843232}
Package: xul-ext-noscript
Status: user-disabled

Name: RefControl
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{455D905A-D37C-4643-A9E2-F6FEFAA0424A}.xpi
Status: enabled

-- Plugins information
Name: Google Talk Plugin
Location: /opt/google/talkplugin/libnpgoogletalk.so
Package: google-talkplugin
Status: enabled

Name: Google Talk Plugin Video Accelerator
Location: /opt/google/talkplugin/libnpgtpo3dautoplugin.so
Package: google-talkplugin
Status: enabled

Name: Google Talk Plugin Video Renderer
Location: /opt/google/talkplugin/libnpo1d.so
Package: google-talkplugin
Status: enabled

Name: Shockwave Flash (11,2,202,332)
Location: /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
Status: enabled


-- Addons package information
ii  google-talkplu 4.9.1.0-1    amd64        Google Talk Plugin
ii  iceweasel      23.0.1-1     amd64        Web browser based on Firefox
ii  xul-ext-noscri 2.6.8.11-1   all          permissions manager for Iceweasel


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages fonts-dejavu depends on:
ii  fonts-dejavu-core   2.34-1
ii  fonts-dejavu-extra  2.34-1

fonts-dejavu recommends no packages.

fonts-dejavu suggests no packages.

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