Hi, > On 2014-10-13 14:51, Ralf Jung wrote: >> so now that upstream has fixed the issue[0] by applying the patch[1], > > Yes, I know about that bug, and its resolution as well (for example, > that an additional smaller patch on top of the linked one is needed). > > No need to do useless poking, please...
Sorry for this, I just wanted to make sure this does not get missed so short before the freeze. > Just like the additional patch mentioned above has been committed a > couple of days after the first one, I was waiting few days more to > check whether anything else beside that is needed. Thanks for your quick reaction, I am now confident that if something usable lands upstream in time for the freeze, Debian will get it :) >> such that Jessie doesn't have to ship with this embarrassing bug? > > I don't think it is appropriate to use such attribution, especially > that the issue is mostly on the side of the TeX Gyre Hermes fonts, > see also comment #11 in the poppler bug mentioned above > (and #742767 as well). I am very aware of the nature of this bug and have been following it for a while. I did not mean to imply in any form that poppler is at fault here. Please accept my excuses if that was your understanding. Poppler is "just" in a position to fix this particular issue. For the bug as a whole though - "User opens pdf and misses some characters", I think "embarrassing" is the right attribute. No matter which part of the software stack happens to be at fault. (My personal impression is that a fix would be the responsibility of the font, but in the end I think getting this to work is more important than such kind of arguments, in particular if the final fix turns out to be not too hard.) It's the kind of bug I would laugh about if it happened on Mac OS. Lucky enough, Mac OS people don't seem to notice yet, at least nobody used this bug as an argument against me in a discussion* yet ;-) Kind regards Ralf *discussion, flame war, all the same... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
