[debian-devel:17396] 協力？：defoma needs work, probably, but is unlikely to go away

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

タケさん、山根さん、debian.or.jpの皆さん、

TTのフォントパッケージが新規に簡単に作れなくなっています。
libft-perl がなくなったのが直接の原因です。
defomaをlibft-perl以外の類似ライブラリーに移植するか、libft-perlを
復活させないといけません。

どなたかdefomaをadoptされませんか？angusがメンテナのはずですが、RFA
していて、lennyリリースに向けて困ったことになっているのに、無策でした。

dfontmgrをスキップしてビルドしたり、かなり最近ひどい状況です。

    *  Incorporate and acknowledge the changes from the non maintainer
       upload.
    * Lintian reports 4 errors and 25 warnings about this package. You
      should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.
    * The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian
      Policy (Standards-Version 3.8.0 instead of 3.6.2.0).
    * The BTS contains patches fixing 3 bugs, consider including or
      untagging them.

背景は
 http://bugs.debian.org/279824
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=defoma

山根さん、各位、

最近TTをパッケージよくされていますが、defomaをアドプトしません？
FTPマネージャーが以下のことを言っています。

青木

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From: Thomas Viehmann <tv@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: defoma needs work, probably, but is unlikely to go away
To: debian-qa@lists.debian.org
CC: Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>
Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:29:15 +0200

Hi,

Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Friday 05 September 2008 22:00, Osamu Aoki wrote:
>>> Quite frankly, if it is just creating new packages, it's a better idea
>>> to fix some RC bugs now and drop defoma as soon as lenny is out the door.
>> If that is agreed view on defoma, there is no need to reactivate this
>> package.

> disclaimer: I dont know much more about defoma then that I think its _the_ 
> debian tool for dealing with fonts...
> 
> And so, I wonder if this is really the agreed view on defoma?! 
> 
> And at the very least we should update this manual for lenny and document how 
> one should create truetype fonts in lenny, if the described way doesnt work 
> anymore.

Apologies for the confusion. A closer look at the situation shows that
defoma should receive major work and someone should adopt it, but
neither the Debian fonts team nor anyone else adopted it so far.

Naturally, if someone chooses to maintain defoma and needs the
libft-perl back bad enough to fix its bugs and pick it up, it can be
reintroduced. That said, I seem to recall (and the defoma RFA bug
supports it to some extend) that defoma really needs some work that
might change it fairly drastically.

Again, sorry for misrepresenting the state of defoma, if it wakes
someone up, the better. :)

Kind regards

T.
-- 
Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/


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