Dear Zoltan, Zoltan Kiraly <zolikydev@gmail.com> writes: > Dear Debian Task Force Team, > I'm writing to request an update for the "fonts-sil-charis-compact" package > in Debian. Approximately one year ago, I contacted SIL regarding this font > package, specifically asking them to include two new symbols to enhance its > usability within Emacs Org mode. SIL has kindly addressed this request, as > evidenced by the following GitHub issue: > https://github.com/silnrsi/font-charis/issues/8 Are you able to file a bug with: reportbug fonts-sil-charis ? If so, that's the thing to do, because it creates a record of the bug/issue/feature request. This will be a normal priority bug if you make its primary purpose "import new upstream release". > I understand that maintaining Debian packages involves various > considerations, and I greatly appreciate the hard work and dedication of > the Debian Task Force Team in this regard. Thanks! On this topic, fonts-sil-charis is in a bad state from my perspective, because it's using a release tarball that doesn't include source, and it should be using a source tarball. eg: https://github.com/silnrsi/font-charis/releases/download/v6.200/CharisSIL-6.200.tar.xz vs https://github.com/silnrsi/font-charis/archive/refs/tags/v6.200.tar.gz https://udd.debian.org/lintian/?packages=fonts-sil-charis Of course this is the human maintainers' prerogative. P.S. The watch file is broken, and I suspect this may be the case for many team packages that were broken by github changes. This might be a nice project for a new contributor and/or lintian-brush. > Thank you for your attention to this matter. You're welcome. I hope you'll file that bug :) Regards, Nicholas
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