[Pkg-fonts-bugs] Bug#594629: fontforge loops indefinetly on some fonts on s390 and sparc

[Don Armstrong]

On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Niko Tyni wrote:
> Your testcase doesn't seem to loop anymore on zelenka.d.o with
> 0.0.20100501-2, but the attached (somewhat reduced) version does and
> lilypond still failed to build with -2.

[...]

> As it's rather hard to test this properly on the porter box without
> root access, I only checked that the test case stopped looping with
> the patch. I don't pretend to understand the code and I don't see a
> test suite, so this might just as well break everything for all I
> know. Upstream should probably be involved.

Awesome; thanks for figuring this all out! [I glanced at the codebase
a while ago, and decided that I didn't have time to figure out what
was going on, either.]

Fontforge maintainers: should I get upstream involved in this? Or do
you think that the one-line patch is reasonable enough to try? [We
could probably get a custom package with the patch installed onto
zelenka by DSA for testing lilypond... and perhaps even have some of
these fonts that fail thrown into a cheap "test suite" of sorts.]


Don Armstrong

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