Hi Kęstutis, in the closing message to this bug you said that the various fonttools available from <URL:http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/fontutils.html> are not actively maintained and that most of their feature are already available in fontforge. I don't know about the other tools, but I don't think this is the case for showttf, which does get updates as seen from <URL:http://fontforge.cvs.sourceforge.net/fontforge/fontforge/fonttools/>. These updates are infrequent, but this is expected given the nature of the tool. The TTF and OTF specifications don't change that rapidly. ;-) In addition, features of showttf are not available in fontforge. For example showttf allows one to take a detailed look into the structure of of the fonts and outlines, the usage of references etc. Also there are some private fields in TTF/OTF fonts which are not exposed by the fontforge GUI, while with showttf one can see their value. Therefore I would really appreciate it if you would include showttf into the Debian packages.
Thanks for considering and thanks for maintaining fontforge. cheerio ralf