[Pkg-fonts-devel] current state and future of liberation-fonts

[pravin.d.s at gmail.com]

On 25 June 2013 14:41, Fabian Greffrath <fabian at greffrath.com> wrote:

> Am 25.06.2013 10:53, schrieb pravin.d.s at gmail.com:
>
>  Yes, Regression was identified.
>> In fact i am also thinking on this line. We have couple of bugs pending
>> [4][5] in Fedora against Liberation 1.0 to add some more characters. At
>> the same time the same characters are already available in Liberation 2.0.
>>
>
> [4] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/**show_bug.cgi?id=952778<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952778>
>
> Could this be related to the following bug reported in Debian BTS?
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-**bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=680581<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=680581>



Yes, looks same. I will fix this in next couple of week and will do next
release of Liberation 1.0


>
>
>  No. Liberation 1.0 is not deferred in favor of other font. Since there
>> is no alternative font providing same crisp hinting effect and same time
>> have more glyph coverage. Fedora still uses Liberation 1.0 and if there
>> are any major bugs upstream is ready to fix and make new releases.
>>
>
> Alright, so the current plan is "wait and see what happens"?



Yeah. no option. At least will fix the major issues. So we can say in
maintenance mode no new development.


>
>
>  What version of Liberation does Debian ships presently?
>>
>
> 1.07.2 with a couple of patches taken from Fedora:
>
> http://patch-tracker.debian.**org/package/fonts-liberation/**1.07.2-6<http://patch-tracker.debian.org/package/fonts-liberation/1.07.2-6>
>


Looks good.

Regards,
Pravin Satpute
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