bug#52493: 29.0.50; Setting Inconsolata up in init.el makes default face rendered wrong

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 17.12.2021 16:01, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Cc: rpluim@gmail.com, 52493@debbugs.gnu.org
> > From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> > Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2021 15:30:46 +0300
> >
> > > Lars, do we make that kludge unconditionally compiled on all systems?
> > > The change which Dmitry's bisection found as the culprit cannot be
> > > undone, I think, because without it we cannot support medium weight
> > > separately from regular.
> >
> > Are we sure the bisected change (dae3c4e89b27) itself doesn't need a
> > tweak? From all the explanations here, I would expect
> >
> >     (set-face-attribute 'default nil :height 110 :weight 'medium :family
> > "Inconsolata")
> >
> > to work correctly even without your "kludge". But it does not.
> >
> > Like, okay, Inconsolata_dz has a weird "style" ("dz"), but the plain
> > Inconsolata is "Medium".
>
> Plain Inconsolata is indeed medium, but Emacs now requests regular,
> not medium, as the default weight.  And, according to the Fc log you
> posted, Inconsolata doesn't have a regular weight variety (whose value
> should be 80, not 100).

But when I specify :weight 'medium, shouldn't it request medium then?