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28.0.50; SVG image not shown completely

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From: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 44065 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, larsi <at> gnus.org, styang <at> fastmail.com,
 stephen.berman <at> gmx.net
Subject: Re: bug#44065: 28.0.50; SVG image not shown completely
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 20:03:46 +0100

On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 07:31:02PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 20:54:44 +0100
> > From: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
> > 
> > I suppose if we're very concerned about it, we can remove the ability
> > to resize and set colours when using librsvg < 2.45 and therefore get
> > rid of this bug everywhere.
> 
> Sounds too drastic to me.  The bug seems to affect rare images, and
> then only crops a few pixels (I initially didn't even see the
> cropping).  By contrast, losing the background feature is quite a
> loss.  And with my relatively ancient version of librsvg I see the bug
> even before the face background feature was installed, so this is not
> a regression for me.

That seems fair. I'd forgotten that the cropping is visible even with
the old code.

> Can't we just say this bug will persist unless new enough librsvg is
> used?

Should I put that note in documentation somewhere or just leave it as
a comment in the code?
-- 
Alan Third

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