This dependency should really be in fontforge itself because it might affects somehow all these other fonts.
In libfontforge4 precisely. $ strings /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfontforge.so.4 | grep pkg_r pkg_resources Core python package 'pkg_resources' not found: Cannot discover plugins $ reverse-depends -b fontforge -l 3270font dkg-handwriting fonts-agave fonts-arabeyes fonts-arphic-bkai00mp fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp fonts-arundina fonts-atarist fonts-breip fonts-century-catalogue fonts-chomsky fonts-creep2 fonts-dejavu fonts-ebgaramond fonts-ebgaramond-initials fonts-engadget fonts-f500 fonts-freefont fonts-georgewilliams fonts-isabella fonts-kacst-one fonts-kalapi fonts-karmilla fonts-levien-museum fonts-levien-typoscript fonts-liberation fonts-liberation-sans-narrow fonts-linuxlibertine fonts-lklug-sinhala fonts-lohit-mlym fonts-monapo fonts-ocr-b fonts-okolaks fonts-oldstandard fonts-osifont fonts-play fonts-prociono fonts-rufscript fonts-staypuft fonts-tibetan-machine fonts-tlwg fonts-tuffy fonts-unfonts-core fonts-unfonts-extra latex-cjk-chinese-arphic libreoffice lilypond mftrace reform-branding scalable-cyrfonts sjfonts triod-postnaja tvtime unifont xfonts-terminus xfonts-traditional Le mer. 17 sept. 2025 à 14:08, Alexandre Detiste <[email protected]> a écrit : > > control: reopen -1 > thanks > > Oh that's really bad ! > > Let's fix fontforge now and rebuild this against > fontforge (>> 1:20230101~dfsg-6~) > later today. > > Thanks for checking > > Le mer. 17 sept. 2025 à 13:53, Fabian Greffrath <[email protected]> a > écrit : > > > > > I have seen with other python packages that a no-change rebuild > > > with newer setuptools is all what is needed to not need > > > python3-pkg-resources anymore > > > > Have a look at the build log: > > > > https://salsa.debian.org/fonts-team/fonts-freefont/-/jobs/8304232 > > > > The warning "Core python package 'pkg_resources' not found: Cannot > > discover plugins" is still scattered all over the place. > > > > - Fabian
