[Pkg-fonts-devel] GNU FreeFont 20120503 released

[Steve White]

 Hi Christian!

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Christian PERRIER <bubulle at debian.org> wrote:
> Quoting Steve White (stevan.white at googlemail.com):
>> Hi!
>>
>> There's a new release of GNU FreeFont.
>>    http://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/
>> Download it at
>>    http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/freefont/
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> Thanks for your commitment maintaining and constantly improving
> Freefont...as well as your care to announce the new version here. It's
> much appreciated.
>
> I'll try to build a new package out of it, as Davide Viti recently
> mentioned he'd like to step out a bit from package maintenance.
>
Let me know if there's anything I can help with.

Note that in this release, the "source" files are packaged differently
from previous
releases.  Now build scripts are included.  It is intended that (given
FontForge is
installed) a "make" in the top directory should build the fonts, to make
packaging easier.

You can also "make ttf" or "make otf", to get those subsets.
(I prefer the OpenType versions on my Debian-based system, which are smaller
and work with no problems, but the TrueType ones work as well.)

> I'd appreciate some help in sorting out which of the current bugs
> reported in the Debian package are fixed by this new version, in case
> there are some.
>
>
Looked at
    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=ttf-freefont
Here's my summary:

Fixed in this release
==============
    ttf-freefont: Strange glyphs for some chars in Control Pictures block
    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=632746

    ttf-freefont: What is Untitled1.ttf?
    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=662924

    FreeSerif: Glyphs for U+2293 (square cap) and U+2294 (square cup) inverted
    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=659527

Should have been closed years ago
=========================
    ttf-freefont: FreeSerif shows characters st with curve on top
    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=477081

    ttf-freefont: Extra space between lines in 20080323-3
    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=479673

Not a FreeFont bug
==============
    ttf-freefont: Reports variant in Bulgarian language
    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=662931
    (a fontconfig bug)

    FreeSans: Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GPOS table 5503
    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=483791
    ? pango problem?

    ttf-freefont: FTBFS twice in a row
    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=662930
    (packaging problem)

    non-automated instructions, which also refer to cruft files
    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=487457
    (packaging problem)

Thanks!