FS#20991 - [fontforge] Regression that create problems with LilyPond build

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Patrick McCarty (pnorcks) - Wednesday, 29 September 2010, 18:20 GMT
Last edited by Gaetan Bisson (vesath) - Thursday, 30 September 2010, 19:52 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Gaetan Bisson (vesath)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

lilypond 2.12.3-4 was built with fontforge 20100501-1, but this fontforge version has a serious regression, causing LilyPond's custom fonts to build incorrectly. Originally reported here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=832685

The LilyPond team is using a CVS snapshot of fontforge in order to work around these issues until a new version of fontforge is released. The attached patch incorporates some upstream changes in fontforge, and it seems to fix the regression. I have tested a lilypond build with a patched fontforge, and I haven't noticed any defects with the font generation.

Package version:
20100501-1
   spline-fixes.patch (32 KiB)
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Closed by  Gaetan Bisson (vesath)
Thursday, 30 September 2010, 19:52 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Gaetan Bisson (vesath) - Wednesday, 29 September 2010, 22:54 GMT
A new version of fontforge should soon arrive in a repo near you.
Could you please confirm that it fixes this bug when it does?
Comment by Patrick McCarty (pnorcks) - Thursday, 30 September 2010, 19:47 GMT
Yes, it does fix the bug. Thanks!

I've opened a new issue to track the rebuild: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/21006

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