[Pkg-fonts-devel] fontforge packaging in git: caveats, instructions, good news, and next steps

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 03/12/2012 03:47 AM, john knightley wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor<dkg at fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
>> i've just done a brief review -- i think #656443 (crash on expand stroke)
>> is the only fix that is handled directly by the upstream "release"; i've
>> marked it as such in the changelog in git.
>>
> When I have built Fontforge from source on i386 Maverick, Natty, and Oneric
> Ubunutu the this bug is present, unlike some others mentioned in February,
> so I would agree that this is a problem with the upstream.

Hm, i don't think we're agreeing actually.  I'm saying that using a 
packaged git snapshot from the upstream repository appears to *fix* 
#656443 for me.  It sounds to me like you're saying building from 
upstream git *doesn't* fix the expand stroke crash for you.  Is that right?

I'm not sure what "some others" are -- can you give a concrete reference 
to these others?

	--dkg