[Pkg-fonts-devel] fontforge pending issues and uploading to experimental

[Vasudev Kamath]

Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net> writes:

> On Sun 2016-07-17 21:07:13 +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
>> I'd say this is similar to a new GCC upload. If a package fails to
>> build with a new version of GCC, we usually file bugs against the
>> failing package instead of GCC.
>
> As the upstream author of a package that is likely to have one of these
> problems, i'm perfectly happy to have a bug filed against
> fonts-dkg-handwriting (even a high-severity bug) if it means getting the
> updated fontforge into debian.
>
> Thanks for doing this work.

Thanks Daniel and Fabian for inputs. I will build the fontforge and
target it to experimental so we can try rebuilding reverse dependency
and then file bugs against failing packages.

Cheers,