Bug#351821: RFA: freetype -- FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
I request an adopter for the freetype package.
Due to a new job I haven't had any time to work on FreeType in the last
few months. As such I would like someone to adopt it. A team would
probably be best, there's lots of difficult issues with this package
and it requires plenty of testing with different fonts and displays.
There's a new upstream version likely in the not so distant future.
The package description is:
The FreeType project is a team of volunteers who develop free,
portable and high-quality software solutions for digital typography.
They specifically target embedded systems and focus on bringing small,
efficient and ubiquitous products.
.
The FreeType 2 library is their new software font engine. It has been
designed to provide the following important features:
* A universal and simple API to manage font files
* Support for several font formats through loadable modules
* High-quality anti-aliasing
* High portability & performance
.
Supported font formats include:
* TrueType files (.ttf) and collections (.ttc)
* Type 1 font files both in ASCII (.pfa) or binary (.pfb) format
* Type 1 Multiple Master fonts. The FreeType 2 API also provides
routines to manage design instances easily
* Type 1 CID-keyed fonts
* OpenType/CFF (.otf) fonts
* CFF/Type 2 fonts
* Adobe CEF fonts (.cef), used to embed fonts in SVG documents with
the Adobe SVG viewer plugin.
* Windows FNT/FON bitmap fonts
.
This package contains the files needed to run programs that use the
FreeType 2 library.
.
Home Page: http://www.freetype.org/
Authors: David Turner <david.turner@freetype.org>
Robert Wilhelm <robert.wilhelm@freetype.org>
Werner Lemberg <werner.lemberg@freetype.org>
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
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