[Bug 1992369] Re: DejaVu Serif Italic capital letters and digits broken

[Danilo Egea Gondolfo]

Digging a bit more on that, the problem might be the font build system.
The most recent fonts-dejavu-extra package is shared across Jammy,
Kinetic and Lunar and it appears to be broken on all of them.

Rebuilding the package on Kinetic seems to be enough to fix the problem.
But that's not true for Jammy. So I suppose whatever was broken (maybe
it fontforge?) was fixed in the version we use in Kinetic.

A no-change build is probably enough to fix the issue on Kinetic and
Lunar.

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Title:
  DejaVu Serif Italic capital letters and digits broken

Status in fontforge package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in fonts-dejavu package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in gnome-font-viewer package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  After updating from Focal to Jammy, I noticed that DejaVu Serif Italic
  looks quite broken. At least the letters EFHKLMNT and the digits 1 and
  4 are affected

  Please see the attached screenshot. This was obtained from `gnome-
  font-viewer /usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSerif-Italic.ttf`

  As the font is the default for me in Firefox, it's quite noticeable.

  $ dpkg -l gnome-font-viewer fonts-dejavu-extra
  Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
  | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
  |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
  ||/ Name               Version      Architecture Description
  +++-==================-============-============-==============================>
  ii  fonts-dejavu-extra 2.37-2build1 all          Vera font family derivate with>
  ii  gnome-font-viewer  41.0-2       amd64        font viewer for GNOME

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