Re: Preparation of the next stable Debian GNU/Linux update
Phillip,
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 6:39 AM, Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org> wrote:
> Preparation of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r5
> =====================================
>
> We are preparing the next revision of the current stable Debian
> distribution (etch)...
>
> If you would like to get a package updated in the stable release, you
> are advised to talk to the stable release managers first (see
> <http://www.debian.org/intro/organization>).
I see from the list that you're a manager on the Stable release team,
so I hope this message satisfies the above requirement. :-)
Can you include the latest version of the package I'm maintaining,
unifont 1:5.1.20080914-1, which is currently in testing?
The latest package has these improvements over the versions (original
& backport) currently in stable:
* Closes all known bugs (some of which had been open in Debian for years).
* Addresses potential DFSG issues, notably with a replacement of the
11,000+ glyphs in the Hangul Syllables block.
* Provides complete coverage of the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane.
* Includes all additions for Unicode 5.1, released in April 2008.
* Incorporates improvements made in older Ubuntu versions that weren't
ported back to Debian.
I did most of the development of the package under etch 4.0r3, and
always made sure during development that the latest version would
still build and install under 4.0r3. The current package builds under
4.0r3 with just a couple of warnings:
1) Warns about using a version of Policy > 3.7.2.
2) Warns that the "Homepage:" control field isn't recognized and is
being skipped.
I asked about these for backporting to etch on the debian-mentors IRC
channel a while ago. I was told that I should ignore those messages
(because they were harmless) rather than constructing a separate
backport control file. According to that advice, the version of
unifont currently in testing should therefore be suitable as is for
etch 4.0r5 (which probably won't even give the above two warnings
anymore).
Paul Hardy
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