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general

source: fontforge (main)
version: 1:20201107~dfsg-4
maintainer: Debian Fonts Task Force (archive) (DMD)
uploaders: Rogério Brito [DMD] [DM] – Davide Viti [DMD] – Vasudev Kamath [DMD] – Daniel Kahn Gillmor [DMD] – Anthony Fok [DMD] – Jonas Smedegaard [DMD] – Hideki Yamane [DMD]
arch: all any
std-ver: 4.5.1
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

versions [more versions can be listed by madison] [old versions available from snapshot.debian.org]

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 1:20161005~dfsg-4+deb9u1
o-o-sec: 1:20161005~dfsg-4+deb9u1
oldstable: 1:20170731~dfsg-1
stable: 1:20201107~dfsg-4
testing: 1:20201107~dfsg-4
unstable: 1:20201107~dfsg-4

versioned links

1:20161005~dfsg-4+deb9u1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
1:20170731~dfsg-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
1:20201107~dfsg-4: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

fontforge (8 bugs: 1, 6, 1, 0)
fontforge-common
fontforge-doc (1 bugs: 0, 1, 0, 0)
fontforge-extras
fontforge-nox (1 bugs: 0, 1, 0, 0)
libfontforge4
python3-fontforge

action needed

A new upstream version is available: 20220308 high

A new upstream version 20220308 is available, you should consider packaging it.

Created: 2022-03-12 Last update: 2022-05-21 02:05

lintian reports 2 errors and 34 warnings high

Lintian reports 2 errors and 34 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2022-01-01 Last update: 2022-01-01 04:32

1 bug tagged patch in the BTS normal

The BTS contains patches fixing 1 bug, consider including or untagging them.

Created: 2021-08-14 Last update: 2022-05-21 06:31

8 new commits since last upload, is it time to release? normal

vcswatch reports that this package seems to have new commits in its VCS but has not yet updated debian/changelog. You should consider updating the Debian changelog and uploading this new version into the archive.

Here are the relevant commit logs:

commit e5764cc23f4aaf2b84d454430aff78328bf75645
Author: Boyuan Yang <byang@debian.org>
Date:   Tue Sep 21 13:57:55 2021 -0400

    debian/control: Drop Rogério Brito from uploaders list. (Closes: #994659)

commit a58ea1b7b9c601d7b3e12a8ea563b07f6cff50cd
Author: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
Date:   Sun Aug 15 11:30:01 2021 +0200

    update copyright hints

commit e81991d47c45938f5a1440702362ca918d82902a
Author: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
Date:   Sat Nov 21 11:27:08 2020 +0100

    copyright: consistently use License-Reference

commit 2b8f7fbc94b63dd5e3244206d52203bd001e5936
Author: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
Date:   Sat Nov 21 11:24:10 2020 +0100

    tidy copyright file: wrap license grants and license sections using semantic newlines

commit 0ac939d6da805074d328b76ee3fa84508904a934
Author: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
Date:   Sat Nov 21 10:48:30 2020 +0100

    tidy copyright file: sort license sections

commit a8adbd17a9e846eaf9bab58fc1d63d69ee614b83
Author: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
Date:   Sat Nov 21 10:44:48 2020 +0100

    tidy copyright file: wrap and sort files and copyright holders (the later by name: sort -k2 -k1,1 -u)

commit 72b2af731fdd28e52b47a823895dc1fa0bdd820e
Author: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
Date:   Sat Nov 21 10:38:20 2020 +0100

    copyright: update coverage

commit 3200383db8301aab815417da43e435d87b72c5a7
Author: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
Date:   Sat Nov 21 10:35:14 2020 +0100

    modernize source script copyright-check

Created: 2021-08-15 Last update: 2022-05-18 13:11

2 low-priority security issues in buster low

There are 2 open security issues in buster.

2 issues left for the package maintainer to handle:

CVE-2020-5395: (needs triaging) FontForge 20190801 has a use-after-free in SFD_GetFontMetaData in sfd.c.
CVE-2020-5496: (needs triaging) FontForge 20190801 has a heap-based buffer overflow in the Type2NotDefSplines() function in splinesave.c.

You can find information about how to handle these issues in the security team's documentation.

Created: 2021-02-19 Last update: 2021-12-05 06:30

Standards version of the package is outdated. wishlist

The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy (Standards-Version 4.6.1 instead of 4.5.1).

Created: 2021-08-18 Last update: 2022-05-11 23:24

news

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[2021-02-01] Removed 1:20190801~dfsg-5 from unstable (Debian FTP Masters)
[2021-01-21] fontforge 1:20201107~dfsg-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-01-21] fontforge 1:20201107~dfsg-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-01-15] Accepted fontforge 1:20201107~dfsg-4 (source) into unstable (Anthony Fok)
[2021-01-15] Accepted fontforge 1:20201107~dfsg-3 (source) into unstable (Anthony Fok)
[2020-12-07] fontforge 1:20201107~dfsg-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-12-07] fontforge 1:20201107~dfsg-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-12-07] fontforge 1:20201107~dfsg-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-11-25] Accepted fontforge 1:20201107~dfsg-2 (source) into unstable (Anthony Fok)
[2020-11-20] Accepted fontforge 1:20201107~dfsg-1 (source all amd64) into unstable, unstable (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Anthony Fok)
[2020-05-29] Accepted fontforge 1:20190801~dfsg-5 (source) into unstable (Jonas Smedegaard)
[2020-03-28] fontforge 1:20190801~dfsg-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-03-06] Accepted fontforge 1:20190801~dfsg-4 (source) into unstable (Boyuan Yang)
[2020-03-06] Accepted fontforge 1:20190801~dfsg-3 (source) into unstable (Boyuan Yang)
[2020-01-08] fontforge 1:20190801~dfsg-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-11-17] Accepted fontforge 1:20190801~dfsg-2 (source) into unstable (Hideki Yamane)
[2019-11-09] Accepted fontforge 1:20190801~dfsg-1 (source all amd64) into experimental, experimental (Hideki Yamane)
[2019-10-03] fontforge 1:20170731~dfsg-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-09-28] Accepted fontforge 1:20170731~dfsg-2 (source) into unstable (Hideki Yamane)
[2017-10-07] fontforge 1:20170731~dfsg-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2017-10-05] Accepted fontforge 1:20170731~dfsg-1 (source all amd64) into unstable, unstable (Jonas Smedegaard)
[2017-09-08] Accepted fontforge 20120731.b-5+deb8u1 (source i386 all) into oldstable-proposed-updates->oldstable-new, oldstable-proposed-updates (Vasudev Kamath)
[2017-09-07] Accepted fontforge 1:20161005~dfsg-4+deb9u1 (source all i386) into proposed-updates->stable-new, proposed-updates (Vasudev Kamath)
[2017-08-26] Accepted fontforge 0.0.20120101+git-2+deb7u1 (source amd64) into oldoldstable (Thorsten Alteholz)
[2016-11-19] fontforge 1:20161005~dfsg-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2016-11-12] Accepted fontforge 1:20161005~dfsg-4 (source all i386) into unstable (Vasudev Kamath)
[2016-10-23] Accepted fontforge 1:20161005~dfsg-3 (source all i386) into experimental (Vasudev Kamath)
[2016-10-15] Accepted fontforge 1:20161005~dfsg-2 (source all i386) into experimental (Vasudev Kamath)
[2016-10-10] Accepted fontforge 1:20161005~dfsg-1 (source all i386) into experimental (Vasudev Kamath)
[2016-09-10] Accepted fontforge 1:20160404~dfsg-4 (source all i386) into experimental (Vasudev Kamath)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 14 15
RC: 1
I&N: 10 11
M&W: 2
F&P: 1
patch: 1

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ubuntu

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version: 1:20201107~dfsg-4build1
28 bugs (1 patch)