Bug#865283: fontmake packaging

[Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org>]

On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 11:56 PM, Yao Wei <mwei@lxde.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thank you for the contribution.
>
> I am also going to upload fonts built from glyphs.app, and making
> fontmake available can achieve this.
>
> I was resolving several license issues of the dependency and the
> dependency packages are gradually uploaded, and I think as the
> dependencies are getting uploaded we can start packaging fontmake.
>
> CCing Jeremy Bicha as he helps me a lot on sponsor uploading and poking
> me for updates!
>
> Best regards,
> Yao Wei
>
> On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 03:31:29PM +0530, Balasankar C wrote:
>> Hi Yao Wei,
>>
>> Wanted to check if you needed some help with packaging fontmake. I
>> maintain some font packages for Debian and the upstream (of which I am
>> also a member of) switched to fontmake from fontforge, so I require
>> fontmake in Debian. I know you have been working on getting fontmake in
>> Debian (thanks for that, :) ) and wanted to know if I can be of any help.
>> AFAIK, it has quite a number of dependencies and I know the effort needed
>> to do this. So feel free to ping me if I can help.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Balasankar C
>> Debian Developer

I'm CCing the RFP bug for fontmake.

My understanding is that we have all of the fontmake dependencies in
Debian now (except for glyphslib and glyphsinfo in the NEW queue), but
sometimes it's a bit hard to know for sure until you actually get the
packaging done.

Use this repo for your packaging when you're ready:
https://salsa.debian.org/fonts-team/fontmake

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha