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

[Steve White]

Christian,

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Christian Perrier <bubulle at debian.org> wrote:
> Quoting Steve White (stevan.white at googlemail.com):
>
>  > Is there any difficulty in updating the version of FontForge in Debian
>  > unstable to 2008-02-15 or later?
>
>
>  Apart from finding someone wanting to do it, not really.
>
>  Unfortunately, the maintainer of FF (Kestutis Biliunas) recently
>  stepped back and we have to find someone wanting to take that hat on
>  his|her head.

That is incredibly bad timing, from my perspective.  Wow.

> Kartik Mistry expressed interest but it might take him some time to be ready.
>
If they aren't on the list, please pass on to them that there is a
present need for this work, and that I would personally be grateful
for it.

The only other route I can imagine is to try to figure out what in the
newer SFD files screws up the release in Debian unstable.  Since
they're only 12 days apart, and no special mention is made in the
FontForge changelog, one wouldn't think it would be a big thing...
But I've already had to do so much detective work like this...  It
certainly isn't my preference.  I don't know...  I'll see.

Please keep me informed.

Cheers!