Bug#806464: RFP: trufont -- cross-platform ufo3 font editor

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : trufont
  Version         : 0.1.0
  Upstream Author : Adrien Tétar <adri-from-59@hotmail.fr>
* URL             : https://trufont.github.io/
* License         : GPLv3 or LGPLv2.1
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : cross-platform ufo3 font editor

TruFont is a cross-platform font editor designed to work with the UFO
font interchange format (http://www.unifiedfontobject.org/).

in CAEozd0yu6sfGh1iZaOpXsF0w_nHPPn94kgMe8DbrdRi7RYoaVQ@mail.gmail.com,
Dave Crossland writes:

>   I thought I'd announce here that Adrien Tétar - one of the most active
>   FontForge developers in the last year or so - has started a new and clean
>   UFOv3 font editor project that I see as a replacement to FontForge.
> 
>   There's a longer discussion about the history and context for this here:
> 
>   http://typedrawers.com/discussion/1165/introducing-trufont-world-s-first-native-ufo3-font-editor-fully-cross-platform
> 
> 
>   I invite all FontForge users and developers to join the TruFont project and
>   help make a transition. However, TruFont is still in an early stage, so for
>   type designers dedicated to using libre software, using both editors will
>   be needed for a while... :)

Packaging TruFont for debian may need the creation/inclusion of
several other python3 font-related libraries, as found in
requirements.txt of the source code, which currently contains:

git+https://github.com/behdad/fonttools.git#egg=fonttools
git+https://github.com/trufont/defcon.git@python3-ufo3#egg=defcon
git+https://github.com/trufont/robofab.git@python3-ufo3#egg=robofab
git+https://github.com/trufont/ufo2fdk.git@python3-ufo3#egg=ufo2fdk
PyInstaller==3.0

Regards,

        --dkg