Bug#956612: libpango-1.0-0: broken kerning since 1.44

[Cyril Brulebois]

Copntrol: severity -1 serious

Cyril Brulebois <kibi at debian.org> (2020-05-03):
> I can confirm this in the Debian Installer as well (spotted early April
> but only debugged right now).
> 
> Getting a little back in time and comparing what unstable used to be at
> 20200401T154401Z and at 20200405T084040Z, I'm seeing these changes in
> the list of udebs used to build the netboot-gtk image:
> 
>     -libcrypt1-udeb_1%3a4.4.15-1_amd64.udeb
>     +libcrypt1-udeb_1%3a4.4.16-1_amd64.udeb
>     -libdrm2-udeb_2.4.100-4_amd64.udeb
>     +libdrm2-udeb_2.4.101-1_amd64.udeb
>     -libpango1.0-udeb_1.42.4-8_amd64.udeb
>     +libpango1.0-udeb_1.44.7-3_amd64.udeb
>     -libudev1-udeb_245.2-1_amd64.udeb
>     +libudev1-udeb_245.4-2_amd64.udeb
>     -udev-udeb_245.2-1_amd64.udeb
>     +udev-udeb_245.4-2_amd64.udeb
> 
> Compare attached 1/2 screenshots to see the regression.
> 
> To make sure the pango update was responsible, I deb-reversion'ed its
> udeb (taking the old udeb, faking a higher version so that it would be
> preferred to the new udeb), and rebuilt the installer with unstable
> from 20200405T084040Z, and I can confirm the regression disappears
> (see 2+revert screenshot).

I thought severity was higher than that. Reasoning for serious is that
rendering looks ***bad*** plus this breaking d-i's automated testing.

I'm told desktop users also suffer from that (cc-ing Corsac for a
possible confirmation).


Cheers,
-- 
Cyril Brulebois (kibi at debian.org)            <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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