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Re: Header fonts


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Header fonts
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 15:40:17 +0200
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Masamichi Hosoda <address@hidden> writes:

>> That's a rather bad problem.  We usually have a two-week schedule of
>> developer releases.  When you find a really bad regression like that, it
>> makes sense to indicate its urgency and decide between
>> 
>> a) revert the patch causing the problem, and then create a new patch
>> reintroducing the change in a fixed manner
>> b) speed up the submission of the followup patch and not waiting for the
>> regular countdown.
>> 
>> When the fix is quite simple (like a typo or a very obvious oversight
>> needing very little code), option b) is likely the easiest.  Otherwise
>> it makes sense to go via route a).
>> 
>> Also, when submitting an issue like 4918, you should label it as
>> category "Regression" when it is a recently introduced problem and state
>> explicitly which patch/issue (if known) introduced the problem.  Only
>> then will it be obvious to others what the consequences may be and
>> whether they should suggest to you or the Patch meister how to best deal
>> with this particular problem.
>
> Sorry.
>
> I did not notice that it has such affected.
> I thought it was a trivial issue of EPS output only.

Apropos: any idea why nothing was obvious in the regtests?  It seems a
bit strange that nothing turned up there.  Maybe because most tests were
not turned into bitmap graphics at all because of equal metrics?

-- 
David Kastrup



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