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On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 12:39 PM Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> wrote:
> Source: pysdl2
> Version: 0.9.9+dfsg1-1
> Severity: important
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian...@lists.debian.org
> Tags: experimental
> User: debian...@lists.debian.org
> Usertags: needs-update
> Control: affects -1 src:libsdl2-ttf
>
> When libsdl2-ttf git snapshots from experimental are used in the
> autopkgtest for pysdl2 from unstable, two tests fail:
>
> > sdlttf.TTF_SizeText(font, b"Hi there!", byref(w), byref(h))
> > > assert w.value == expected_w
> > E assert 69 == 70
> > E +69
> > E -70
> ...
> > sdlttf.TTF_SizeUTF8(font, u"Hï thère!".encode('utf-8'),
> byref(w), byref(h))
> > > assert w.value == expected_w
> > E assert 72 == 73
> > E +72
> > E -73
>
> (Example logs:
>
> https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/unstable/amd64/p/pysdl2/18161524/log.gz
> ,
>
> https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/unstable/arm64/p/pysdl2/18161611/log.gz
> )
>
> I'm about to upload the final release of libsdl2-ttf 2.0.18, which I
> suspect will have the same behaviour as this prerelease. 2.0.18 uses
> Harfbuzz for better support for non-Latin text and 2.0.15 did not,
> which might explain the different width; I don't think SDL_ttf aims to
> make any particular guarantee that text will render as exactly the same
> pixels in each version.
>
> You can see this in the "pseudo-excuses" report for experimental, which
> asks
> what would happen if experimental -> unstable had a migration process
> similar
> to unstable -> testing:
>
> https://release.debian.org/britney/pseudo-excuses-experimental.html#libsdl2-ttf
>
> The affected version is currently only in experimental, but it is likely
> to be uploaded to unstable soon, at which point this will become RC.
>
> Please update the test's expectations. There seems to be some support for
> having several expected values for height, so adding the same thing for
> width would make sense.
>
> Thanks,
> smcv
>
>
