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Re: Bug#742338: src:expeyes: Removal of expeyes and pygrace to remove grace and t1lib



On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 01:00:08 +0100
Georges Khaznadar <georges.khaznadar@free.fr> wrote:

> Hello Neil,

Keep the bug and the mailing list in the CC. I'm not on the mailing
list and the bug needs to contain a record of the discussions around
removal.

> I began to watch grace's source: making it use freetype seems a huge
> task.
> 
> Modifying expeyes to use qtiplot rather than xmgrace is easier. I made
> it successfully for one script; it may require some thought to make an
> elegant solution for every script which depends on pygrace.

Then by all means, do that without delay. There is no reason to remove
expeyes if it stops using grace - as it appears that porting grace to
freetype is not practical.
 
> However, where can I find precisely the security issues about t1lib?

The main issues which remain are that t1lib is unmaintained upstream
and unsupportable in Debian.

> Finally, is the package t1lib usable or not?

No, not long term. It has been superseded and is now abandonware.

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Neil Williams
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