Dear release team, I would like to request for a freeze exception for thaifonts-scalable 0.4.11-2, which fixes following important problems in Lenny: 1. Thick strikeout for Waree font, the presumably default sans-serif for Thai. This appeared to be Fontforge's bug, which has been fixed in a newer upstream version than what's shipped in Lenny. Upstream has fixed this with a workaround, so it can still be built with older Fontforge. 2. Bad choices for default Thai fonts as provided by the core fontconfig-config package. This problem was reported against fontconfig-config as Debian #506641 and Freedesktop #16223, neither of which is likely to be timely fixed. So, upstream has addressed this by overriding the fontconfig-config defaults instead. The fix involved config file renaming. And the left-over config file has been cleaned up in 0.4.11-2, to pass piuparts. Both problems are considered annoyance to Thai users. And the new upstream version was released solely for these bugs, plus a couple of fine tunes and merging of Debian patches (thus all patches are dropped). Nothing more. Summarized upstream changes, from the NEWS file: ---8<--- 0.4.11 (2008-11-21) ====== - Increased fontconfig priority, to override upstream fontconfig's defaults for Thai. - Fixed thick strikeout bug for Waree. - Improved hinting for TlwgTypo, TlwgTypist, TlwgTypewriter and TlwgMono. ---8<--- Summarized Debian changes from Lenny: ---8<--- thaifonts-scalable (1:0.4.11-2) unstable; urgency=low * debian/ttf-thai-tlwg.preinst, debian/otf-thai-tlwg.preinst: - Clean up obsolete conffiles, for piuparts cleanness: /etc/fonts/conf.avail/65-ttf-thai-tlwg.conf /etc/fonts/conf.avail/65-otf-thai-tlwg.conf -- Theppitak Karoonboonyanan <thep@linux.thai.net> Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:02:40 +0700 thaifonts-scalable (1:0.4.11-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream bugfix release. * Update fontconfig files in sync to upstream: - debian/{ttf,otf}-thai-tlwg.links: Update links for fontconfig files - debian/rules: Ditto for fontconfig file installation for otf-thai-tlwg * Patch works: - debian/patches/01_fontconfig_prefer: Removed, included upstream - debian/patches/series, debian/patches: Removed, unneeded - debian/control, debian/rules: Drop quilt build-dep * debian/copyright: Updated format to proposal rev. 384: - Drop Packaged-By, Packaged-Date - Add Upstream-Name, Upstream-Maintainer - Replace Upstream-Author with Upstream-Maintainer - Replace Original-Source-Location with Upstream-Source - Use one Copyright statement per field - Use 'Copyright' instead of '©' - Replace 'GPL-2+ | other' with 'GPL-2+-By-Font' and split its description into standalone field * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.0 (no changes needed) -- Theppitak Karoonboonyanan <thep@linux.thai.net> Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:32:28 +0700 ---8<--- And, for the record, it has already stayed bug-free in unstable for 42 days. Regards, -- Theppitak Karoonboonyanan http://linux.thai.net/~thep/
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