[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#489007: pre-upload approval (Bug#489007: ttf-liberation looks ugly)

[Holger Levsen]

Hi,

please don't laugh at the bug - ugly fonts are really bad, especially widely
used ones :)

On Sunday 26 October 2008 08:12, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Holger Levsen (holger at layer-acht.org):
> > Hi maintainers of ttf-liberation,
> >
> > IMHO we should really fix #489007 "Ugly bold u and normal y (sans serif)"
> > for lenny. The bug is fixed in a new upstream version which IMHO is ok
> > for a font package, even (or maybe especially) for a widely used one ;)
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> Actually, being a new upstream version, that would require a
> pre-approval by the release team.

So, release-team, whats your opinion? 

If you say "probably, but we want to see the diff first", I say "great", if
you say "no way" I'll spare myself the work of creating it. Actually, after 
writing this, I looked at the upstream diff, the result is at the bottom of
this mail..

I'm fairly sure that the bug report and fix are valid, considering how picky 
and fanatic quite many people are about fonts :-)


regards,
	Holger (who's not the maintainer of ttf-liberation but the sponsor of the uploads so far)


diff -Nur liberation-fonts-1.04.beta2/ChangeLog liberation-fonts-1.04.92/ChangeLog
--- liberation-fonts-1.04.beta2/ChangeLog       2008-06-12 09:08:53.000000000 +0200
+++ liberation-fonts-1.04.92/ChangeLog  2008-10-15 18:21:42.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,5 +1,30 @@
+* Wed 15 Oct 2008 Caius Chance <cchance at redhat.com>
+- Fixed blurred 'u' and 'W' for Sans Bold font (rhbz#463036).
+
+* Wed 17 Sep 2008 Caius Chance <cchance at redhat.com>
+- Fixed missing hinting instructions for all Mono fonts (rhbz#460090).
+- Fixed missing hinting instructions for all Sans fonts (rhbz#460090).
+- Fixed missing hinting instructions for all Serif fonts (rhbz#460090).
+- Released as version 1.04.91
+
+* Tue 09 Sep 2008 Caius Chance <cchance at redhat.com>
+- Backed up all released files in ./dist directory.
+
+* Fri 05 Sep 2008 Caius Chance <cchance at redhat.com>
+- Fixed incorrect glyph points and missing hinting instructions for:
+  Mono Bold Italic (up to U+2012) (rhbz#460090).
+
+* Mon 25 Aug 2008 Caius Chance <cchance at redhat.com>
+- Fixed incorrect glyph points and missing hinting instructions for:
+  U+0079, U+03BC, U+0431, U+2010..2012, U+1114117 (rhbz#458592).
+- Released as version 1.04.90.
+
+* Thu 13 Jul 2008 Caius Chance <cchance at redhat.com>
+- Released as version 1.04.
+
 * Thu 12 Jun 2008 Caius Chance <cchance at redhat.com>
-- Released as version 1.04.beta2.
+- Released as version 1.04.beta2 (1.03.99).
+- Added ZIP package building for non-tar users.
 - rhbz#440992:
   - Created Romanian "T/t/S/s with comma below" (U+0218..021B) on all fonts.
   - Fixed "T/s with cedilla below" (U+0162/0163) on all fonts.
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