[Pkg-fonts-devel] Update for fonts-sil-annapurna

Bobby de Vos bobby_devos at sil.org
Mon Jun 26 15:17:34 UTC 2017


On 2017-06-23 19:12, Norbert Preining wrote:

> teckit in Debian seems to be dead. The original maintainer hasn't 
> answered my questions/request for months, trivial fixes are not 
> done. He asked me to use his libteckit for texlive building, but
> since it never came out of experimental and RC buggy, I would
> suggest we ask for removal of this package.
> 
> If there is need, I could built libteckit packages from the texlive-bin
> sources.

I was a little surprised to see the suggestion to remove this package.
The Debian project requested that the upstream fix a license issue [1]
in January and that fix was made in February.

I understand what you are saying about the maintainer. Indeed, that is
why I was invited to Debian, it was an invitation from Daniel to
maintain (instead of him) the SIL NRSI fonts in Debian that I am on this
list.

Thank you for offering to build a libteckit package. I am sorry to say I
don't see how that would help my group, as the issue we are having with
teckit is the file /usr/bin/teckit_compile is in both the teckit package
on PSO and in Debian/Ubuntu. Which is why the previous maintainer of
TECkit and I introduced a diversion for our own internal package. You
can see that work at [2].

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=850438

[2] https://github.com/silnrsi/teckit/tree/master/debian-src

Thanks, Bobby

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