[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#628839: Bug#628839: fontforge: FTBFS with Python 2.7: undefined reference to `PyBytes_Decode'

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 06/01/2011 02:46 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> Source: fontforge
> Version: 0.0.20100501-6
> Severity: important
> User: debian-python at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: python2.7
> 
> When rebuilt against python-defaults 2.7.2-1 (currently in experimental),
> fontforge failed to build from source:

Sounds like the same bug that gentoo ran into here:

 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=327113

It looks like there are multiple changes upstream related to making
fontforge build cleanly with python2.7:

 http://fontforge.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/fontforge/fontforge/fontforge/ffpython.h?view=log

maybe packaging the new upstream release is in order?  20110222 appears
to be published at:

 https://sourceforge.net/projects/fontforge/files/fontforge-source/

	--dkg

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