[Pkg-fonts-devel] fontforge packaging information

Hideki Yamane henrich at debian.or.jp
Sat Mar 12 22:17:42 UTC 2016


On Sat, 12 Mar 2016 14:33:29 +0530
Vasudev Kamath <vasudev at copyninja.info> wrote:
> How is fontforge updated?. I see there is master and there debian/sid
> branch. I remember long ago dkg synced fontforge from upstream repo but
> I don't know if same is still followed. Also package lacks a
> README.source file so now I'm wondering if we plan to update fontforge
> how do we do it?.

 Sorry for delay, I'm busy for daily job (OSX admin! ;) and some stuff
 (dealing with tax, etc)...


 Now I've pushed working branch "license-update", please look at
 debian/copyright file. And also ask upstream people to help it as
 https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issues/2643


> Is the master branch is meant to be tracked from upstream repo and
> debian/sid is actually debian packaging branch?.

 Yes.


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 Hideki Yamane     henrich @ debian.or.jp/org
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