Bug#939748: Newest version breaks rendering of bitmap fonts in GTK applications.

[Jason Crain]

On Sun, Sep 08, 2019 at 11:20:28AM +0000, Gong S. wrote:
> The newest version in the experimental repo, 1.44.6-1, breaks the
> displaying of XLFD bitmap fonts in GTK applications.

My understanding is that dropping bitmap font support was intentional.
See:

https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2019/05/25/pango-future-directions/

and

https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2019/08/07/pango-1-44-wrap-up/