julia-mono 0.055 breaks Xft-based programs

[rnhmjoj]

Describe the bug

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Steps To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. add julia-mono to fonts.packages
2. run xterm -fn 'xft:JuliaMono'
3. witness the Xlib error:

   X Error of failed request:  BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length error)
   Major opcode of failed request:  139 (RENDER)
   Minor opcode of failed request:  20 (RenderAddGlyphs)
   Serial number of failed request:  83
   Current serial number in output stream:  892

Additional context

Reverting to 0.054 fixes the issue.

Notify maintainers

@suhr

Metadata

Please run nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m" and paste the result.

[user@system:~]$ nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m"
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[rnhmjoj]

Upstream changelog: https://github.com/cormullion/juliamono/compare/v0.054...v0.055

[suhr]

See also: https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji/issues/183. The xft bug is probably triggered by https://github.com/cormullion/juliamono/issues/201.

[suhr]

The future version of julia-mono should fix this issue, so keep it open for now.