[Pkg-fonts-bugs] Bug#427917: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#427917: please cand you package/add xgridfit ?

[Denis Jacquerye]

On 6/8/07, Kęstutis Biliūnas <kebil at kaunas.init.lt> wrote:
> Kt, 2007 06 07 15:06 +0200, Gürkan Sengün rašė:
> > Package: fontforge
> > Version: 0.0.20070501-2
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> > can you add xgridfit to it?
> > http://xgridfit.sourceforge.net/
>
> No, this one not fits to the FontForge package. But this bug would
> be retitled to ITP and reassigned to the new xgridfit package.
> The current state of the xgridfit archives on sourceforge.net
> are not very good for packaging, but we can ask the upstream
> to fix these problems and we can do the new package for Debian.
>
> What does Debian fonts packaging team think about xgridfit?
> Would this package be useful for Debian?

Yes, packaging xgridfit would be useful.
It is already required to generate Junicode with all the features.
Currently the ttf-junicode package lacks hinting.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ttf-junicode/+bug/117214
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=428034
Other fonts like Old Standard also use xgridfit for hinting.
It is a great way to hint a font, it makes things a lot easier to
work, read, and modify.

From what I understand a path in one of the scripts would need to be changed.
What is wrong with the upstream package regarding packaging?

Cheers,
Denis Moyogo Jacquerye