[Bug 844601] [NEW] [FFe] Sync freetype 2.4.6-2 (main) from Debian unstable (main)

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Please sync freetype 2.4.6-2 (main) from Debian unstable (main)

FreeType 2.4.6[1] and 2.4.5[2] has been released, this version fixed several
issues. Also fixed broken cjk fonts renderring in evince and other software.

Highlights from changelog
    - For TrueType based fonts, the ascender and descender values were
      incorrect sometimes  (off by a pixel if the ppem value was not a
      multiple of 5).   Depending on the use you might now  experience
      a different  layout; the  change should  result in  better, more
      consistent line spacing.

    - Fix CVE-2011-0226  which causes a  vulnerability while  handling
      Type 1 fonts.

    - BDF fonts  containing  glyphs with negative values  for ENCODING
      were  incorrectly  rejected.  This  bug has  been introduced  in
      FreeType version 2.2.0.

    - David Bevan contributed a major revision of the FreeType stroker
      code:

      . The behaviour of FT_STROKER_LINEJOIN_BEVEL has been corrected.

      . A new  line join style,  FT_STROKER_LINEJOIN_MITER_FIXED,  has
        been introduced to support PostScript and PDF miter joins.

      . FT_STROKER_LINEJOIN_MITER_VARIABLE  has been introduced  as an
        alias for FT_STROKER_LINEJOIN_MITER.

      . Various stroking glitches has been fixed.

    - A rendering regression  for second-order Bézier curves  has been
      fixed, introduced in 2.4.3.

    - If autohinting  is not  explicitly disabled,  FreeType now  uses
      the autohinter if  a TrueType based font doesn't  contain native
      hints.

    - The load flag FT_LOAD_IGNORE_GLOBAL_ADVANCE_WIDTH  has been made
      redundant and  is simply ignored;  this means that FreeType  now
      ignores the global advance width value in TrueType fonts.

    - Again some fixes to better handle broken fonts.

    - Just  Fill Bugs contributed (experimental) code to compute  blue
      zones for CJK Ideographs, improving the alignment of  horizontal
      stems at the top or bottom edges.

[1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/freetype2/2.4.6/README/view
[2] https://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/freetype2/2.4.5/README/view

Changelog entries since current oneiric version 2.4.4-2ubuntu1:

freetype (2.4.6-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/patches-freetype/0001-Fix-Savannah-bug-33992.patch: [PATCH]
    Fix Savannah bug #33992.  Thanks to David Bevan
    <david.bevan at pb.com>.  Closes: #638348.

 -- Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org>  Sat, 20 Aug 2011 06:30:18 +0000

freetype (2.4.6-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
    - fixes CVE-2011-0226, a vulnerability in parsing of Type 1 fonts.
      Closes: #635871.
    - upstream now builds cleanly with -Werror and the new gcc-4.6 upstream
      warnings.  Closes: #625328.

 -- Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org>  Thu, 04 Aug 2011 05:49:09 +0000

** Affects: freetype (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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[FFe] Sync freetype 2.4.6-2 (main) from Debian unstable (main)
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