[Pkg-fonts-devel] fontforge packaging update

[Vasudev Kamath]

Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> writes:

> Hi Vasudev,
>
>> I've updated the fontforge package to install everything upstream
>
> Thanks. I have built from the previous state, and run tested it.

Great. I'm happy to get inputs like if it breaks or works fine for your
cases.

>
>> builds. Only pending point remaining now is fontforge-nox which will
>> also be built soon.
>
> I looked into this but due to CDBS (which is a bit twisted complicated)
> I couldn't force a rebuild of ff without x.

You mean not re-generating control. Yes I kept control without
regenerating because package was not final yet. But since you commited
its more easy to build now :-) (one less step).


>
>> I would love to provide pre-built packages but for now you need to build
>> it yourself for testing :-).
>
> If there is interested I can provide a apt-gettable repo for amd64

If you can it would be great. Lets see if any one from team wants a
pre-built binary for their test.