Bug#858585: unblock: nickle-2.79-2

2017-03-23 Thread "Keith Packard"
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock Please unblock package nickle. I believe this was blocked as there were three uploads in the last few days? Let me explain why that was the case: 1. nickle 2.78-1 contained a fix for FTB

Bug#684358: unblock: fontconfig/2.9.0-7

2012-08-09 Thread Keith Packard
Christian Perrier writes: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: unblock > > Please unblock package fontconfig > > Keith Packard apparently forgot to ask for unblock so I'm doing it on >

Re: ttf-bitstream-vera should not have been removed

2009-12-27 Thread Keith Packard
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:26:27 +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > I would much prefer if a new upload is made, so it is properly shown > with a maintainer that cares - and not one that wants it gone. A simple > rebuild for it shouldnt be much of a problem, its arch:all, not likely > to break much. I've

Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] ttf-bitstream-vera should not have been removed

2009-06-28 Thread Keith Packard
On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 15:23 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > Shouldn't that be a bug reported against DejaVu fonts, then ? Sure, but I doubt it will be fixed. Hinting glyphs is the hard part of font design, and I don't know of any tools available to people outside the world of commercial font de

Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] ttf-bitstream-vera should not have been removed

2009-06-26 Thread Keith Packard
On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 07:57 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > (reducing CC list to the acceptable minimum) > > Quoting Keith Packard (kei...@keithp.com): > > > The main 'improvement' that should be made in dejavu is to remove glyphs > > which are not part of t

Re: ttf-bitstream-vera should not have been removed

2009-06-25 Thread Keith Packard
On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 11:56 +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Given Keith’s reaction, he’ll probably volunteer to maintain it if > > Daniel doesn’t want to do it anymore. I’m also CCing pkg-fonts in case > > people want to jump on the occasion to team-maintain it instead. >