[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#1095130: Bug#1095130: marked as done (fonts-freefont: please reconsider the python3-pkg-resources build-dependency)

[Alexandre Detiste]

control: reopen -1
thanks

Oh that's really bad !

Let's fix fontforge now and rebuild this against
 fontforge (>> 1:20230101~dfsg-6~)
later today.

Thanks for checking

Le mer. 17 sept. 2025 à 13:53, Fabian Greffrath <fabian at greffrath.com> a écrit :
>
> > I have seen with other python packages that a no-change rebuild
> > with newer setuptools is all what is needed to not need
> > python3-pkg-resources anymore
>
> Have a look at the build log:
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/fonts-team/fonts-freefont/-/jobs/8304232
>
> The warning "Core python package 'pkg_resources' not found: Cannot
> discover plugins" is still scattered all over the place.
>
>   - Fabian