[Bug 1751293] Re: libfreetype6 2.8.1 cause nasty font glitches in atom editor

[Douglas Gaskell]

This also effects other electron apps such as Discord. The fix for users
is to downgrade from freetype 2.8.1 to freetype 2.8.

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Title:
  libfreetype6 2.8.1 cause nasty font glitches in atom editor

Status in freetype package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Main bugreport: https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/15737

  Problem can be reproduced with 2.8.1-0.1ubuntu2, but it disappears on
  libfreetype6=2.8-0.2ubuntu2.1.

  I don't know about root cause, but may be holding back on 2.8-0 in
  bionic may be a great idea?

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: libfreetype6 2.8-0.2ubuntu2.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-10.11-generic 4.15.3
  Uname: Linux 4.15.0-10-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu10
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: X-Cinnamon
  Date: Fri Feb 23 16:42:14 2018
  Dependencies:
   gcc-8-base 8-20180208-0ubuntu1
   libc6 2.26-0ubuntu2.1
   libgcc1 1:8-20180208-0ubuntu1
   libpng16-16 1.6.34-1
   zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-0ubuntu2
  DistributionChannelDescriptor:
   # This is a distribution channel descriptor
   # For more information see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributionChannelDescriptor
   canonical-oem-somerville-xenial-amd64-20160624-2
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-06-22 (246 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 "Xenial" - Build amd64 LIVE Binary 20160624-10:47
  SourcePackage: freetype
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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