Well, you could apply this thought to any program; you just want use it and sometimes you get some gcc bugs
Regards Davide Il giorno 18/gen/2011, alle ore 12:26, Khaled Hosny <khaledho...@eglug.org> ha scritto: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:07:20PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 21:27:11 +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 08:13:28PM -0800, Daniel Schepler wrote: >>>> Package: fontforge >>>> Version: 0.0.20100501-4 >>>> Severity: serious >>> >>> Bugs like this make wounder if it is wise for distributions to build >>> fonts from source instead of just using upstream supplied font files. >>> >>> I mean, what is the benefit from building from source? I, as a font >>> author, I can see many possible problems with no obvious benefit. >>> >> If we didn't build from source, we wouldn't catch bugs like this. > > Which is good thing? > > I mean the purpose of font packages is to be used, not catch FontForge > bugs, and there are FontForge bugs that can pass unnoticed at build > time. > > See also: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=600306 > > for a non-bug that just screwed the font up. Another reason why it is > not, yet, a good idea to build fonts on your own. > > (BTW, it is already known that there are places in the code that don't > go well with doubles and crashes like this have been reported upstream > already, still there are certain tasks that can't be reliably done > without building fontforge to use doubles). > > Regards, > Khaled > > -- > Khaled Hosny > Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team > Free font developer > _______________________________________________ > Pkg-fonts-devel mailing list > pkg-fonts-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-fonts-devel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
