[Debian-in-workers] FontForge Update to stable

[Anivar Aravind]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Christian PERRIER <bubulle at debian.org>
wrote:

> (droppign the list of Cc's in the hope that all participants *are* in
> the debian-in-workers list)
>
> Quoting Balasankar C (balasankarc at autistici.org):
> > Ok. I didn't mail it to font team's mailing list because I am under the
> impression that list is no more maintained( I am getting a lot of spam
> mails from that list).. Anyway, let's do it after freeze..
>
> The list is maintained and well maintained. We're active on it.
>
> It's an opened list, just like all Debian lists. So you get spam,
> sorry for this....but a good spam filter will easily take care of it :
> my own folder of pkg-fonts-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org is *not* full
> of spam (but my spam fold"er is).
>
> The pkg-fonts team is alive.
>
> ....but will not update FF at least not until jessie is released. It
> is too late. The jessie ship is sailing.
>
> Sad that it won't support newly released fonts with backward
> incompatibility. IMHO groups creating such fonts should think before
> creating such breakage (or FF authors should.....but intentionnally
> breaking backward compatibility is anything but a good idea : free
> software authors shouldn't try to mimic proprietary software authros).
>

https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issues/1934
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