[Bug 1275971] [NEW] Dejavu sans bold font broken on GREEK CAPITAL LETTER DELTA

[Sergio Callegari]

Public bug reported:

Font dejavu sans bold, as distributed in fonts-dejavu-core.deb
incorrectly renders some chars and notably GREEK CAPITAL LETTER DELTA
(U+0394).

Character is misrendered in acroread, by ghostscript and when printed to
most postscript printers. Misrendering includes total or partial fill of
the inside of the delta symbol.

Issue is nasty, because on ubuntu the font configuration is such that
whenever one requires a greek letter on a sans font that does not
include the greek gliphs, dejavu sans is automatically substituted.

The saucy package is affected (2.33t+svn...)
The package that is currently in trusty is also affected (2.34)

Issue is known to the dejavu fonts developers and fixed in snapshot
140118

Please consider for a SRU, or at least update the trusty package (that
is installable in saucy).

** Affects: dejavu-fonts
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: Unknown

** Affects: fonts-dejavu (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #74434
   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74434

** Also affects: dejavu-fonts via
   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74434
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

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Title:
  Dejavu sans bold font broken on GREEK CAPITAL LETTER DELTA

Status in DejaVu Fonts:
  Unknown
Status in “fonts-dejavu” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Font dejavu sans bold, as distributed in fonts-dejavu-core.deb
  incorrectly renders some chars and notably GREEK CAPITAL LETTER DELTA
  (U+0394).

  Character is misrendered in acroread, by ghostscript and when printed
  to most postscript printers. Misrendering includes total or partial
  fill of the inside of the delta symbol.

  Issue is nasty, because on ubuntu the font configuration is such that
  whenever one requires a greek letter on a sans font that does not
  include the greek gliphs, dejavu sans is automatically substituted.

  The saucy package is affected (2.33t+svn...)
  The package that is currently in trusty is also affected (2.34)

  Issue is known to the dejavu fonts developers and fixed in snapshot
  140118

  Please consider for a SRU, or at least update the trusty package (that
  is installable in saucy).

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