Hi, On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 11:06:49PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Steve White (stevan.white@googlemail.com): > > Hi Christian, > > > > I saw your name on a bunch of bug reports for GNU freefont, and Primoz > > told me you were partly responsible for cleaning the font up for > > Debian. > > He proposed that I should implement the changes you made there. > > > > I'm hoping you can give me some advice, and perhaps help, in how to > > proceed with this. > > > > Are all your changes reflected in the patches on the Freefont bugs? > > If not, is there a separate version control branch for your changes? > > Or do you have notes? > > > > I am only now starting to see what a mess this is. Beside the new > > format used by FontForge, I immediately see some problems in the > > large: > > * many characters far outside the font bounds (sometimes twice as big > > as they should be) > > * whole ranges of characters (apparently) duplicated in strange places. > > * kerning is strangely broken (depending on application) > > * various other messy problems, such as un-closed paths > > > Hello Steve, > > I read about you taking the maintenance of Freefont over. That's great > news. > > I'm no longer the maintainer of the Debian package, which has been > taken over by Davide Viti (zinosat@tiscali.it) and the Debian Fonts > packaging team. I took the package over a few months ago and prepare just a couple of updates containing trivial fixes; Christian did alot of work the previous months but not much happened since then due to upstream inactivity. You effort seems really promising and will hopefully bring new life to a well known package. As for the Debian Installer, we switched it as to use ttf-dejavu as default font, but freefont is still used for rendering most Indic languages, so there's still alot of interest on it. > > - I think that all changes in the Debian packages are reflected in > bugs reported to upstream as you found it definitely; upstream activity on the package happened mostly on the Debian package, so the BTS is probably the best source of information regards, Davide
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