Bug#939748: Please add a NEWS.Debian entry for dropping BDF & Type 1 support

[Anthony DeRobertis]

Package: libpango-1.0-0
Version: 1.46.0-2
Followup-For: Bug #939748

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Adding a NEWS entry explaining that support for these formats is gone
would help prevent a lot of frustration for users (myself included) who
were surprised after upgrading and got to go track down the issue.

Maybe something like:

  Pango 1.44 no longer supports BDF & PCF (X11) bitmap fonts and Type 1.

  Upstream has switched from using Freetype to Harfbuzz for loading
  fonts, which means it no longer supports various old font formats
  including X11 bitmap fonts and Type 1 fonts. These however can be
  wrapped in the supported OpenType format, for details see
  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/-/issues/386 and
  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BitmapFontConversion

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (130, 'unstable-debug'), (130, 'unstable'), (120, 'experimental-debug'), (120, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages libpango-1.0-0 depends on:
ii  fontconfig     2.13.1-4.2
ii  libc6          2.31-3
ii  libfribidi0    1.0.8-2
ii  libglib2.0-0   2.64.4-1
ii  libharfbuzz0b  2.6.7-1
ii  libthai0       0.1.28-3

libpango-1.0-0 recommends no packages.

libpango-1.0-0 suggests no packages.

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