[Bug 1842643] Re: [ffe] Update to 1.44.6

[Iain Lane]

Feel free then, I'm just really unsure personally about us being able to
fix regressions, but if you think that is an OK risk then fine.

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Title:
  [ffe] Update to 1.44.6

Status in pango1.0 package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  There are a lot of changes in pango1.0 since the version we currently
  have in eoan. We held off updating because there was a test failure.
  This has been resolved in the latest release, so we'd like to go for
  the update now.

  Overview of changes in 1.44.6
  =============================
  - docs: Fix symbol indices
  - Fix Thai line breaking
  - Re-add symbols needed by some bindings
  - Don't insert hyphens for some languages
  - Fix a crash with hyphenation

  Overview of changes in 1.44.5
  =============================
  - Revert a broken change (causing crashes on OS X)

  Overview of changes in 1.44.4
  =============================
  - Add an insert-hyphens attribute
  - Reinstate the return type of pango_fc_font_lock_face
  - Fix a problem with ellipses getting the wrong font
  - fc: Improve filtering by font format
  - Re-add PangoFcFont to public headers
  - Install PangoFc and PangoOT introspection files
  - Fix ink rectangles to have positive height
  - Fix mark positioning
  - Switch to using harfbuzz for metrics

  Overview of changes in 1.44.3
  =============================
  - Install pango-ot headers
  - Make subpixel positioning optional
  - fc: Ignore fonts with unsupported formats

  Overview of changes in 1.44.2
  =============================
  - Disable ligatures when letterspacing
  - Set design coords on hb_font_t
  - Expose more font options in pango-view
  - OS X: Make 'system-ui' font work
  - Keep deprecated pango-fc apis in headers
  - Make hex boxes work, always
  - introspection: Various build fixes
  - introspection: Add PangoPT, PangoFT2 namespaces
  - layout: Make the new line-spacing opt-in

  Overview of changes in 1.44.1
  =============================
  - Fix a crash with allow_break attributes
  - Fix Emoji spacing
  - Fix up includes and pkg-config requires
  - Correct some cases for hyphen insertion

  Overview of changes in 1.44.0
  =============================
  - Use harfbuzz for shaping on all platforms
  - Stop using freetype for font loading; this
      drops support for type1 and bitmap fonts
  - Add a getter for hb_font_t
  - Make PangoCoverage a GObject
  - Add a pango_tailor_break api
  - font metrics: Add line height
  - layout: Support line spacing
  - layout: Draw hyphens for line breaks
  - Add an attribute to suppress line breaking
  - cairo: Don't render hex boxes for space
  - Add an attribute to show invisible characters
  - Stop quantizing glyph positions
  - Add tests for itemization and line breaking
  - Remove language and shape engine remnants
  - Rename meson options: gtk_doc, introspection
  - Require GLib 2.59.2
  - Require Harfbuzz 2.0

  Overview of changes in 1.43.0
  =============================
  - Drop autotools
  - Drop Visual Studio build
  - Build with meson everywhere
  - Update Emoji tables for Unicode 11
  - Update test data for Unicode 11
  - Fix a crash with Thai breaking
  - Fix a crash with font variations
  - Deprecate bidi apis in favor of fribidi
  - Add a variable font family api
  - Improve font fallback handling on win32

  And see posts from upstream

  https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2019/07/19/pango-updates/
  https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2019/07/27/more-text-rendering-updates/
  https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2019/08/07/pango-1-44-wrap-up/

  for the new features.

  We'd like to update to it, if possible.

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