[Pkg-fonts-devel] New release: GNU FreeFont

[Davide Viti]

On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 01:33:36AM +0200, Steve White wrote:
> Davide
> 
> I don't know what is meant by stability as regards a font.
> 
> These fonts are data files, not executables.  (It is possible for TT
> files to contain some interpreter code, but I'm not using that
> feature.)
> 
> Usually the word stability is applied to programs or systems
> consisting of executing code, to mean the quality of not often going
> wonky.
> 
> Are you using the term some other way?

well, with "stable" I was meaning something more like "ready for stable"
(in a Debian context): usable without "basic" problem like the one
that causes FF to segfault, a version that doesn't make a user regret
having installed it.

As for the bug you've fixed upstream:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=472566

I was trying to collect a patch out of CVS and looks like
you've fixed the problem with revision 1.126: can I use
the following snippet to fix the problem or does the fix
involve also other parts:

@@ -67456,21 +67456,21 @@
 StartChar: uni20DD
 Encoding: 8413 8413 2216
 Width: 0
-Flags: MW
-Validated: 3073
+Flags: HMW
+AnchorPoint: "middle" -232 298 mark 0
 LayerCount: 2
 Fore
 SplineSet
-1 711 m 0
- 238 711 374 542 374 337 c 0
- 374 126 236 -37 -1 -37 c 0
- -238 -37 -374 128 -374 337 c 0
- -374 546 -228 711 1 711 c 0
-337 337 m 0
- 337 548 188 674 1 674 c 0
- -210 674 -337 526 -337 337 c 0
- -337 140 -204 0 0 0 c 0
- 200 0 337 136 337 337 c 0
+-223 790 m 0
+ 90 790 270 589 270 296 c 0
+ 270 17 88 -198 -225 -198 c 0
+ -538 -198 -718 20 -718 296 c 0
+ -718 587 -525 790 -223 790 c 0
+221 296 m 0
+ 221 575 40 741 -223 741 c 0
+ -487 741 -669 555 -669 296 c 0
+ -669 36 -493 -149 -224 -149 c 0
+ 40 -149 221 31 221 296 c 0
 EndSplineSet
 EndChar



thanx
Davide