[Pkg-fonts-devel] fontforge packaging information

[Vasudev Kamath]

Hideki Yamane <henrich at debian.or.jp> writes:

> On Sat, 12 Mar 2016 14:33:29 +0530
> Vasudev Kamath <vasudev at copyninja.info> wrote:
>> How is fontforge updated?. I see there is master and there debian/sid
>> branch. I remember long ago dkg synced fontforge from upstream repo but
>> I don't know if same is still followed. Also package lacks a
>> README.source file so now I'm wondering if we plan to update fontforge
>> how do we do it?.
>
>  Sorry for delay, I'm busy for daily job (OSX admin! ;) and some stuff
>  (dealing with tax, etc)...

No problem :-). (Oh OSX admin!)

>
>  Now I've pushed working branch "license-update", please look at
>  debian/copyright file. And also ask upstream people to help it as
>  https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issues/2643

Thank you I will try to follow up on the issue.

>
>> Is the master branch is meant to be tracked from upstream repo and
>> debian/sid is actually debian packaging branch?.
>
>  Yes.

Cool! I will try to add a README.source for this.