Bug#673475: iceweasel 10.0.4: sometimes, caracteres are strangely displayed

[Mike Hommey]

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 09:42:59AM +0200, Gilles Émilien MOREL wrote:
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> -------- Message initial --------
> De   : Mike Hommey
> À    : Gilles Émilien MOREL
> CC   : 673475 at bugs.debian.org
> Date : vendredi 18 mai 2012 Ã  23:51:40
> Sujet: Re: iceweasel 10.0.4: sometimes, caracteres are strangely displayed
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> 
> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 11:35:03PM +0200, Gilles Émilien MOREL wrote:
> > Package: iceweasel
> > Version: 10.0.4esr-2
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > Sometimes, iceweasel 10.0.4 displays artifacts instead of the normal 
> > characters.
> > This could happen in every character that is displayed by iceweasel, either 
> in 
> > a webpage, or a menu.
> > 
> > Please note that I use plasma-desktop with composite on a NVidia card 
> (nouveau 
> > driver). I also have this same trouble with another computer, also with a 
> > NVidia card and the same driver, but I solved it with iceweasel 12.0-6 which 
> > does not have this problem. I can't install it because it disapeared from 
> > experimental repos.
> 
> Try downgrading libcairo2 to 1.10.something.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
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> 
> 		Hello,
> 
>   How am I supposed to do that? I don't know how to downgrade a package.

Just install an older version, that you can find on
http://snapshot.debian.org/

Mike