[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#609094: fontforge: Fails to build ttf-dejavu

[Daniel Schepler]

Package: fontforge
Version: 0.0.20100501-4
Severity: serious

From my pbuilder build log for ttf-dejavu:

...
scripts/generate.pe tmp/DejaVuSerif-Bold.sfd
Copyright (c) 2000-2010 by George Williams.
 Executable based on sources from 11:21 GMT 1-May-2010.
 Library based on sources from 03:43 GMT 29-Apr-2010.
On Windows many apps will have problems with this font's kerning, because 
because 2 of its glyph kern pairs cannot be mapped to unicode-BMP kern pairs
mv tmp/DejaVuSerif-Bold.sfd.ttf build/DejaVuSerif-Bold.ttf
scripts/ttpostproc.pl build/DejaVuSerif-Bold.ttf
rm -f build/DejaVuSerif-Bold.ttf~
touch -r tmp/DejaVuSerif-Bold.sfd build/DejaVuSerif-Bold.ttf
[1] src/DejaVuSerif-BoldItalic.sfd => tmp/DejaVuSerif-BoldItalic.sfd
install -d tmp/
sed "s@\(Version:\? \)\(0\.[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+\|[1-9][0-9]*\.[0-9]\+\)@\12.31@" 
src/DejaVuSerif-BoldItalic.sfd > tmp/DejaVuSerif-BoldItalic.sfd
touch -r src/DejaVuSerif-BoldItalic.sfd tmp/DejaVuSerif-BoldItalic.sfd
[3] tmp/DejaVuSerif-BoldItalic.sfd => build/DejaVuSerif-BoldItalic.ttf
install -d build/
scripts/generate.pe tmp/DejaVuSerif-BoldItalic.sfd
Copyright (c) 2000-2010 by George Williams.
 Executable based on sources from 11:21 GMT 1-May-2010.
 Library based on sources from 03:43 GMT 29-Apr-2010.

At this point the build process hangs with a fontforge process consuming 100% 
CPU.

Also, fontforge continues to run even after I've interrupted the build 
process, and I have to kill the process by hand.
-- 
Daniel Schepler