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

[Stephan Walter]

$ gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.desktop.interface | grep font
org.gnome.desktop.interface document-font-name 'Cantarell 11'
org.gnome.desktop.interface font-antialiasing 'grayscale'
org.gnome.desktop.interface font-hinting 'slight'
org.gnome.desktop.interface font-name 'Noto Sans 9'
org.gnome.desktop.interface font-rgba-order 'rgb'
org.gnome.desktop.interface monospace-font-name 'Monospace 10'
$

I'm using the integrated graphics processor on an Intel i3-8100 CPU with
Xubuntu / xfce4.

While I agree that it may not be a problem with the actual font, I
clicked through many fonts available in gnome-font-viewer and only saw
problems with these:

DejaVu Serif, Condensed Bold Italic
DejaVu Serif, Bold Italic
DejaVu Serif, Italic
DejaVu Serif, Condensed Italic

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Title:
  DejaVu Serif Italic capital letters and digits broken

Status in fonts-dejavu package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in gnome-font-viewer package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

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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