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

[Alexandre Detiste]

This dependency should really be in fontforge itself
because it might affects somehow all these other fonts.

In  libfontforge4 precisely.

$ strings /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfontforge.so.4 | grep pkg_r
pkg_resources
Core python package 'pkg_resources' not found: Cannot discover plugins


$ reverse-depends -b fontforge -l
3270font
dkg-handwriting
fonts-agave
fonts-arabeyes
fonts-arphic-bkai00mp
fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp
fonts-arundina
fonts-atarist
fonts-breip
fonts-century-catalogue
fonts-chomsky
fonts-creep2
fonts-dejavu
fonts-ebgaramond
fonts-ebgaramond-initials
fonts-engadget
fonts-f500
fonts-freefont
fonts-georgewilliams
fonts-isabella
fonts-kacst-one
fonts-kalapi
fonts-karmilla
fonts-levien-museum
fonts-levien-typoscript
fonts-liberation
fonts-liberation-sans-narrow
fonts-linuxlibertine
fonts-lklug-sinhala
fonts-lohit-mlym
fonts-monapo
fonts-ocr-b
fonts-okolaks
fonts-oldstandard
fonts-osifont
fonts-play
fonts-prociono
fonts-rufscript
fonts-staypuft
fonts-tibetan-machine
fonts-tlwg
fonts-tuffy
fonts-unfonts-core
fonts-unfonts-extra
latex-cjk-chinese-arphic
libreoffice
lilypond
mftrace
reform-branding
scalable-cyrfonts
sjfonts
triod-postnaja
tvtime
unifont
xfonts-terminus
xfonts-traditional


Le mer. 17 sept. 2025 à 14:08, Alexandre Detiste
<alexandre.detiste at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> 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