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:
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0.4.11 (2008-11-21)
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- 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.
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Summarized Debian changes from Lenny:
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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
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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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