[Pkg-fonts-devel] pkg-fonts team needs help to maintain font-forge

[Paul Wise]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 4:49 PM, Raphael Hertzog wrote:

> looking at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=745732
> which has been languishing for two years, it looks like the pkg-fonts
> team could need some help to maintain this package.

There has been some efforts around this recently, check the
pkg-fonts-devel archives.

> This new upstream version is needed by at least two other fonts, one
> of which has a serious bug (#822762) which is fixed in a new release that
> requires a newer font-forge.

The new upstream fontforge also breaks building at least one font.

> So your contribution to this team will be really useful and highly
> appreciated. Hopefully there are enough volunteers in the team
> to at least review/sponsor your work. If not, I can have a try at
> it.

Indeed.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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