Bug#284421: dia: Problems with Text

[Roland Stigge]

Hi Ross,

thanks for the update.

On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 22:21 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> Still running dia 0.94, but now on Debian 0.94.0-7 vs the original -3.
> 
> I'm not sure if this is good or bad news, but I'm completely unable to
> reproduce the problem, even for fonts [upstream asked if it was
> limited to fonts].  It may be relevant than one of
> the changes from -3 to -7 was 
> 
>   * lib/font.c: Applied upstream patch to disable font caching
>     (Closes: #273625)
> 
> It may also be relevant that I recently discovered a syntax error in
> /etc/fonts/local.conf which is used by fontconfig.  Since I fixed it
> my fonts seem to be a lot better, so I suspect fontconfig wasn't
> working properly before.
> 
> Many other packages have been upgraded as well in the interim.
> 
> This seems consistent with Lars's [upstream] theory that this problem
> was a side effect of others.  So it may be appropriate to close it.  I
> wonder if Roland also finds this bug unreproducible now.

I remember checking this one on one of the last revisions and couldn't
reproduce it. I consider this bug as... well... gone. :)

If there are no interesting updates on this bug, I will close it on next
bug list cleanup.

bye,
  Roland