[Bug 259991] Re: Please sync unifont 1:5.1.20080820-1 (main) from Debian unstable (main).
** Summary changed: - Please sync unifont 1:5.1.20080808-2 (main) from Debian unstable (main). + Please sync unifont 1:5.1.20080820-1 (main) from Debian unstable (main). ** Description changed: - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- - Hash: SHA1 - - affects ubuntu/unifont - status confirmed - importance wishlist - subscribe ubuntu-archive - Please sync unifont 1:5.1.20080820-1 (main) from Debian unstable (main). Explanation of the Ubuntu delta and why it can be dropped: 1. The upstream unifont has been unmaintained since around 2003. - It has now found a great maintainer Paul Hardy who extended - the font coverage to Unicode 5.1 BMP and is very active in - continuing development of this font. + It has now found a great maintainer Paul Hardy (a member of the + Unicode Consortium) who extended the font coverage to Unicode 5.1 + BMP and is very active in continuing development of this font. 2. Paul Hardy (as upstream maintainer) is also personally maintaining the package for Debian, and is eager to have the new version accepted into Ubuntu too. 3. Paul has already merged the Ubuntu delta (improvements) into 1:5.1.20080808-1: From 1:1.0-4ubuntu3: Fix missing size and charset font properties (LP: #195764). - hex2bdf now uses additional BDF header lines for better font description - hex2bdf-split (originally Dave Starner's adaptation of Roman Czyborra's hex2bdf) renamed from hex2bdf. Use is discouraged but it's still here for now for completeness; wrote man page changed name of output font from -gnu-fixed-* to -gnu-unifont-* From 1:1.0-4ubuntu2 and 1:1.0-4ubuntu1 (LP: #62849): - Added Georgian glyphs contributed to Ubuntu's unifont package by Gia Shervashidze and Vladimer Sichinava Changelog since current intrepid version 1:1.0-4ubuntu3: unifont (1:5.1.20080820-1) unstable; urgency=low * Replaced Hangul Syllables block with glyphs in unifont.bdf file in Debian bf-utf-source package, originally from the Debian xfonts-baekmuk package (Closes: #495729) - Avoids license ambiguity of unifont's original Hanterm fonts - Brings two diverging Debian copies of the unifont font closer together * Deleted references to and all derivative copies of any Hanterm fonts * Changed unifont package description in debian/control to mention that the package now installs /usr/share/unifont/unifont.hex and other files and is no longer just a metapackage (Closes: #494662) -- Paul Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:08:15 -0700 unifont (1:5.1.20080808-2) unstable; urgency=low * Install unifont.hex [and other files while I was at it] in /usr/share/unifont for GRUB (Closes: #494473) - unifont.hex provides glyphs with no combining circles, etc. and is the same file as font/compiled/unifont-5.1.20080808.hex - unifontfull.hex provides glyphs with combining circles, etc. and is the same file as font/compiled/unifontfull-5.1.20080808.hex. If editing hex glyphs, this file is the master version to edit; unifont.hex is generated from this full version -- see uniunmask(1) for details. - combining.txt lists all Unicode 5.1 code points that are combining glyphs, and hence should have zero-width. - README gives a brief description of the above three files * Corrected typos in the previous changelog entry. -- Paul Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat, 9 Aug 2008 20:55:27 -0700 unifont (1:5.1.20080808-1) unstable; urgency=low * Added needed Replaces, Conflicts lines in debian/control (Closes: #493711) * Added Build-Depends-Indep: defoma line in debian/control for access to dh_installdefoma to install TrueType font (Closes: #494245) * Changed ttf-unifont.defoma-hints file entry for GeneralFamily from SansSerif to Typewriter as a better match * Changed dh_lintian lines in debian/rules to use ( ... ) || /bin/true so debuild would succeed on a generic Etch DVD installation that doesn't include dh_lintian in the debhelper package * Added updates from Ubuntu unifont package: - hex2bdf now uses additional BDF header lines for better font description - hex2bdf-split (originally Dave Starner's adaptation of Roman Czyborra's hex2bdf) renamed from hex2bdf. Use is discouraged but it's still here for now for completeness; wrote man page changed name of output font from -gnu-fixed-* to -gnu-unifont-* - Added Georgian glyphs contributed to Ubuntu's unifont package by Gia Shervashidze and Vladimer Sichinava * Merged man page Makefile changes done by Anthony Fok from Debian diff file into .orig.tar.gz * Made minor changes to existing programs in ./src - unibmp2hex.c: forced double-wide
[Bug 259991] Re: Please sync unifont 1:5.1.20080820-1 (main) from Debian unstable (main).
** Description changed: Please sync unifont 1:5.1.20080820-1 (main) from Debian unstable (main). Explanation of the Ubuntu delta and why it can be dropped: 1. The upstream unifont has been unmaintained since around 2003. It has now found a great maintainer Paul Hardy (a member of the Unicode Consortium) who extended the font coverage to Unicode 5.1 BMP and is very active in continuing development of this font. 2. Paul Hardy (as upstream maintainer) is also personally maintaining the package for Debian, and is eager to have the new version accepted into Ubuntu too. 3. Paul has already merged the Ubuntu delta (improvements) into 1:5.1.20080808-1: From 1:1.0-4ubuntu3: Fix missing size and charset font properties (LP: #195764). - hex2bdf now uses additional BDF header lines for better font description - hex2bdf-split (originally Dave Starner's adaptation of Roman Czyborra's hex2bdf) renamed from hex2bdf. Use is discouraged but it's still here for now for completeness; wrote man page changed name of output font from -gnu-fixed-* to -gnu-unifont-* From 1:1.0-4ubuntu2 and 1:1.0-4ubuntu1 (LP: #62849): - Added Georgian glyphs contributed to Ubuntu's unifont package by Gia Shervashidze and Vladimer Sichinava + + 4. Unifont 5.1 has merged the much improved and unified-looking + CJK Ideographs from Wen Quan Yi. Since the Ubuntu LiveCD startup + screen (isolinux + gfxboot) uses glyphs from Unifont, it would + improve many users' first impression of Ubuntu. :-) Changelog since current intrepid version 1:1.0-4ubuntu3: unifont (1:5.1.20080820-1) unstable; urgency=low * Replaced Hangul Syllables block with glyphs in unifont.bdf file in Debian bf-utf-source package, originally from the Debian xfonts-baekmuk package (Closes: #495729) - Avoids license ambiguity of unifont's original Hanterm fonts - Brings two diverging Debian copies of the unifont font closer together * Deleted references to and all derivative copies of any Hanterm fonts * Changed unifont package description in debian/control to mention that the package now installs /usr/share/unifont/unifont.hex and other files and is no longer just a metapackage (Closes: #494662) -- Paul Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:08:15 -0700 unifont (1:5.1.20080808-2) unstable; urgency=low * Install unifont.hex [and other files while I was at it] in /usr/share/unifont for GRUB (Closes: #494473) - unifont.hex provides glyphs with no combining circles, etc. and is the same file as font/compiled/unifont-5.1.20080808.hex - unifontfull.hex provides glyphs with combining circles, etc. and is the same file as font/compiled/unifontfull-5.1.20080808.hex. If editing hex glyphs, this file is the master version to edit; unifont.hex is generated from this full version -- see uniunmask(1) for details. - combining.txt lists all Unicode 5.1 code points that are combining glyphs, and hence should have zero-width. - README gives a brief description of the above three files * Corrected typos in the previous changelog entry. -- Paul Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat, 9 Aug 2008 20:55:27 -0700 unifont (1:5.1.20080808-1) unstable; urgency=low * Added needed Replaces, Conflicts lines in debian/control (Closes: #493711) * Added Build-Depends-Indep: defoma line in debian/control for access to dh_installdefoma to install TrueType font (Closes: #494245) * Changed ttf-unifont.defoma-hints file entry for GeneralFamily from SansSerif to Typewriter as a better match * Changed dh_lintian lines in debian/rules to use ( ... ) || /bin/true so debuild would succeed on a generic Etch DVD installation that doesn't include dh_lintian in the debhelper package * Added updates from Ubuntu unifont package: - hex2bdf now uses additional BDF header lines for better font description - hex2bdf-split (originally Dave Starner's adaptation of Roman Czyborra's hex2bdf) renamed from hex2bdf. Use is discouraged but it's still here for now for completeness; wrote man page changed name of output font from -gnu-fixed-* to -gnu-unifont-* - Added Georgian glyphs contributed to Ubuntu's unifont package by Gia Shervashidze and Vladimer Sichinava * Merged man page Makefile changes done by Anthony Fok from Debian diff file into .orig.tar.gz * Made minor changes to existing programs in ./src - unibmp2hex.c: forced double-wide glyphs where appropriate in U+FFxx range - uniunmask.c: increased buffer size hard-coded wide variable to avoid accidentally invoking a half-implemented extended character widths -
