Comment 55 for bug 80921

> I needed a method to override the packaged versions and by
> trial and error it appeared that I have to increment ubuntuX.

No; the correct versioning scheme for a PPA is described here:
https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA/BuildingASourcePackage#Versioning

> On another note, you posted a patch in 2007 to the upstream bug report.
> Can’t we do anything to close this upstream?

I hope so (though the particular patch I posted in 2007 isn’t useful anymore).

> I know upstream wants a patch and sees no difference between LCD
> filter and no filtering anyhow. But really.

It’s totally reasonable for them to want a patch, and there’s no reason to believe that they “see no difference”.

> And then there’s the issue that Carl Worth removed the LCD filtering API
> from Cairo because some test suite images came out differently.

That was a long time ago in the 1.7 branch. Freetype LCD filtering has never been in a stable release of Cairo; Ubuntu has been patching it in.

> In PDF rendering we cannot follow the desktop settings because
> only slight hinting and the across-pixel filter work properly on
> PDFs.

Those are the default desktop settings these days on Ubuntu, right? But anyway, why should PDFs need to be any different than the rest of the desktop?