[Pkg-fonts-devel] fontforge in the upcoming Debian release

[Adam Borowski]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 12:29:05PM +0200, Andrew Shadura wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> As there was a release of FontForge yesterday, and I've been using
> upstream packaging for a while since ours is so much outdated, I thought
> about helping update the package to the latest release and uploading it
> to unstable. However, there are some questions about the current packaging:
> 
> 1. Why is there an epoch (1:)? The previous versions don't seem to
> conflict with the current ones, is it really needed?

Good question.  I guess it's an artefact of intermediate versions that
haven't even been uploaded.

> 2. Is there anything that prevents the version of FontForge in
> experimental from going to unstable right now?

The new version causes a bunch of FTBFSes in other packages.

Logs from my last rebuild of build-rdeps:
https://angband.pl/tmp/ff10/failed/


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