> 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?
> 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: /help.launchpad .net/Packaging/ PPA/BuildingASo urcePackage# Versioning
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> 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?