Defoma Orphaned?
Hello the list,
I am interested in helping with the Debian Font Manager. I wrote the
former maintainer in January, but never heard back. Then I read this in
the Debian Weekly News:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=180188
I have never maintained a package before and hesitate to ask for the
responsibility to maintain something as key as defoma. However, I am
very interested in helping with font issues both in X and with
Ghostscript / OpenOffice. If someone is going to adopt Defoma and wants
help with bugs and documentation, I'd like to volunteer!
P.S.
Because I was frustrated with the hinting program that came with Defoma,
I wrote a Defoma auto-hinter in C against the Freetype2 libraries
that'll rip through 1300 fonts in about a second and generate a properly
formatted Defoma hint file automagically. Of course, my poor old laptop
blows up trying to add them due to the memory leak in the defoma-font
program, but that is why I want to work with the package maintainer. ;)
Anthony L. Awtrey
Vice President
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