Bug#1036366: libreoffice: fails to embed font subset, PDF not printable, no option to disable subsetting nor embedding

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

Hi,

Am 20.05.23 um 23:52 schrieb Thorsten Glaser:
> Rene Engelhard dixit:
>
> > You as DD should know that stable won't get any updates for this anymore. (And
> > it will be oldstable in a short time anyway, even.)
> So, who cares?
me :)
> > So reporting this against stable does not make any sense at all.
> It does: it records the issue, so others will know,
True
> and requests
> the maintainers (both in Debian and upstream) to do something about
> it at least in future versions.

No, upstream doesn't do it when it just appears here. And I could 
forward it, but how does  that help?

I don't have enough info and no time to play proxy for every question.


> > Please try with bookworms package (that one has stable backports, but is
> Please do so. You’re in a much better position than I am, I don’t
> even have a bookworm/sid system and don’t plan on getting one either.

I don't even understand the problem. So you as the submitter is better 
suited to do this.


> > (And I still think such bugs should be reported upstream directly)
> And I still counter that you are in a much better position than me to
> do so.

I disagree. You know best what's the problem and what not :)


>   I don’t have the bandwidth to do that, I already lost over an
> hour fighting this (I ended up having to hack the font, renaming it in
> FontForge), and every day I don’t need to touch an office program is a
> better day.

I don't use it either...


> I cannot
respond to the questions they will surely have and I cannot test their
proposed fixes either.

Exactly the same for a "simple" maintainer of the package without knowing the exact problem...

Regards,


Rene