[Pkg-fonts-bugs] Bug#319951: Not sure that #319951 is still here

[Christian Perrier]

tags 319951 - unreproducible
found 319951 0.4-1
thanks

Quoting pmaydell at chiark.greenend.org.uk (pmaydell at chiark.greenend.org.uk):

> >Actually, I'm morei interested in unstable as there's nothing we can do
> >to fix such bugs in stable.
> 
> Yes, but you still need to find out whether the lack of a warning is
> because (1) the font system has been upgraded to support spaces in font
> names (2) somebody has silently taken the space out of the hints file
> in the unstable version of your fonts packages (3) some change in defoma
> means that the warning has gone away but the system still doesn't support
> spaces in names (which would mean that in future it might all break again,
> perhaps worse than before). The action you need to take to resolve this
> bug report differs in each case.

I'm actually lost here, honestly. Maybe help from other font people
would be good.

> 
> As a more general point, if users find that bug reports are always met
> with an attitude that they will be ignored if they aren't reproducible
> in unstable they may drift away to other distributions :-(


Sorry if this has been your feeling. That wasn't the intent. My main
point is that if something is broken in stable versions of either the
font or defoma, there is a very little chance that we can fix it. I'm
sure you know about this.


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