Bug#482329: Wrong positioning of letters

[Josselin Mouette]

reassign 482329 libcairo2 1.6.4-2
thanks

Le mercredi 21 mai 2008 à 23:17 +0200, Joachim Breitner a écrit :
> I’m not sure if this is a pango or cairo bug, but I’m starting here. See
> the simple attached program that renders a string using cairo and pango.
> It is written in python, but the same behaviour was observed in an C
> package first (binary package sm), so it is a bug in the C libraries.
> 
> It should print ":-)" in relatively large letters, but I get the output
> as in the attached image. This does not happen at all font sizes, but
> only for certan spans of sizes.
> 
> This bug is relatively bad for users of screen-message (sm), because it
> makes it non-reliable.

According to upstream this bug lies in cairo, and it is already fixed
upstream, but the change has not been integrated in Debian yet.

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