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freetype 2.11.0+dfsg-1 source package in Ubuntu

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freetype (2.11.0+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version:
    - Support for creating 8-bit Signed Distance Field (SDF) bitmaps for both
      outline and bitmap glyphs via a new rendering module.
    - Access to surfacing properties of 'COLR' v1 color fonts via a new
      experimental API.
    - Further demotion of the legacy Type 1 and CFF engines due to a lack of
      support for CFF2 charstrings.
    - Correct handling of PCF bitmap fonts compressed with LZW.
    - Enhancements to various demo programs.
  * Subpixel rendering re-enabled for release builds.
  * debian/control:
    - Raise Standards-Version to 4.6.0 from 4.5.1 (no changes needed).
    - Replace fonts-material-design-icons-iconfont with fonts-dejavu-core.
  * debian/copyright: Update for FreeType 2.11.0.
  * debian/gbp.conf: Use DEP-14 branch naming.
  * debian/libfreetype6.symbols: Update for FreeType 2.11.0.
  * debian/patches:
    - autogen-no-git.patch: Only use git commands if building from a branch.
    - Drop remove-gstatic-code.patch (replaced by sed commands in d/rules).
    - Update and refresh other patches.
  * debian/rules:
    - Include /usr/share/dpkg/architecture.mk.
    - Update file exclusions in dh_installdocs-indep.
    - Remove specific lines from the HTML reference documentation to prevent
      Lintian privacy-* warnings.
  * debian/source/lintian-overrides: Silence errors about long lines in the
      HTML documentation.
  * freetyp2-demos: Add wildcard line context to the typo-in-manual-page tag.
  * Remove legacy maintscripts (freetype2-demos, libfreetype6-dev).

 -- Hugh McMaster <email address hidden>  Thu, 14 Oct 2021 22:06:22 +1100

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Binary packages built by this source

freetype2-demos: FreeType 2 demonstration programs

 The FreeType project is a team of volunteers who develop free,
 portable and high-quality software solutions for digital typography.
 They specifically target embedded systems and focus on providing small,
 efficient and ubiquitous products.
 .
 This package contains some demonstration programs and utilities
 that showcase the features of the FreeType 2 font engine.

freetype2-demos-dbgsym: debug symbols for freetype2-demos
freetype2-doc: FreeType 2 font engine, development documentation

 The FreeType project is a team of volunteers who develop free,
 portable and high-quality software solutions for digital typography.
 They specifically target embedded systems and focus on providing small,
 efficient and ubiquitous products.
 .
 This package contains the FreeType 2 development documentation.

libfreetype-dev: FreeType 2 font engine, development files

 The FreeType project is a team of volunteers who develop free,
 portable and high-quality software solutions for digital typography.
 They specifically target embedded systems and focus on providing small,
 efficient and ubiquitous products.
 .
 This package contains all of the supplementary files you need to develop your
 own programs using the FreeType 2 library.

libfreetype6: FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files

 The FreeType project is a team of volunteers who develop free,
 portable and high-quality software solutions for digital typography.
 They specifically target embedded systems and focus on providing small,
 efficient and ubiquitous products.
 .
 The FreeType 2 library is their new software font engine. It has been
 designed to provide the following important features:
  * A universal and simple API to manage font files
  * Support for several font formats through loadable modules
  * High-quality anti-aliasing
  * High portability & performance
 .
 Supported font formats include:
  * TrueType files (.ttf) and collections (.ttc)
  * Type 1 font files both in ASCII (.pfa) or binary (.pfb) format
  * Type 1 Multiple Master fonts. The FreeType 2 API also provides
    routines to manage design instances easily
  * Type 1 CID-keyed fonts
  * OpenType/CFF (.otf) fonts
  * CFF/Type 2 fonts
  * Adobe CEF fonts (.cef), used to embed fonts in SVG documents with
    the Adobe SVG viewer plugin.
  * Windows FNT/FON bitmap fonts
 .
 This package contains the files needed to run programs that use the
 FreeType 2 library.

libfreetype6-dbgsym: debug symbols for libfreetype6
libfreetype6-dev: FreeType 2 font engine, development files (transitional package)

 The FreeType project is a team of volunteers who develop free,
 portable and high-quality software solutions for digital typography.
 They specifically target embedded systems and focus on providing small,
 efficient and ubiquitous products.
 .
 This package contains all of the supplementary files you need to develop your
 own programs using the FreeType 2 library.
 .
 This is a transitional package. It can safely be removed.