[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#821227: fonts-linuxlibertine: Switching to Libertinus Fork?

[Frederic Wang]

Package: fonts-linuxlibertine
Version: 5.3.0-2
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

Checking the upstream FontForge project, the maintainer of the Linux Libertine project seems to have been inactive for two years and unresponsive to contributors:

https://sourceforge.net/u/philthelion/profile/
https://sourceforge.net/p/linuxlibertine/discussion/307868/thread/4400449a/
https://sourceforge.net/p/linuxlibertine/discussion/307868/thread/b2195e99/

That's why Khaled Hosny created a fork with many bug fixes and an additional
math font:

https://github.com/khaledhosny/libertinus
https://github.com/khaledhosny/libertinus/issues/16

I suggest to switch to that fork, which seems more up-to-date and active.

-- Package-specific info:
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  fontconfig     2.11.0-6.4   amd64        generic font configuration librar
ii  libfreetype6:a 2.6.3-3+b1   amd64        FreeType 2 font engine, shared li
ii  libxft2:amd64  2.3.2-1      amd64        FreeType-based font drawing libra

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

-- no debconf information