[Bug 1799014] Re: bold font rendeing in Java is broken in Cosmic with OpenJDK 11

[Laurent Bonnaud]

> updating other gtk pacakges did [fix the issue]

Indeed.

I confirm that on my Debian sid+experimental system, fonts look OK in
openjdk-11.

I tried to investigate the problem in Ubuntu cosmic by first trying to
determine which fonts are used by the JRE.  I used this command:

  cat /proc/$(pidof java)/maps | grep font

and only found files from /var/cache/fontconfig/ and no actual font files.
Other applications have files from /usr/share/fonts/, but not the JRE.
Without this I do not know where to look further :<...

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Title:
  bold font rendeing in Java is broken in Cosmic with OpenJDK 11

Status in freetype package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in openjdk-lts package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in openjdk-11 package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Since update to Cosmic, I see that bold fonts in Java have broken
  rendering. See attached 400% scaled PNG for illustration. The 'r' in
  bold rendering of "Hello World" shows basically a vertical line from
  the end of the hook end. I am not entirely sure this is freetype issue
  but some sources (https://github.com/adobe/brackets/issues/14290)
  suggest there is a bug in the 2.8.1 version that Cosmic seems to
  install (libfreetype6/cosmic,now 2.8.1-2ubuntu2 amd64 [installed]).

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