pfaedit: doesn't actually exist

[Daniel Stone]

There's now a pfaedit 'transition package' which is aimed to transition people
over to fontforge, but the problem is that fontforge doesn't actually provide a
pfaedit binary, which causes FTBFSes on t1-cyrillic, at least.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Wouldn't it be better to just transition t1-cyrillic to fontforge?

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

as discussed, pfaedit and fontforge are actually the same program, so the
transition should be trivial

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

Seb, any complaints with adding a pfaedit that just execs fontforge? Else, the
pfaedit package really shouldn't be provided.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

no, no complaint

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

Fixed in 0.0.20040618-1ubuntu2 (a small dummy pfaedit binary is provided).

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

I'll take a card for lying. When a script like:
#!/bin/sh
exec fontforge "$@"

is called, it spits out 'FontForge used to be called PfaEdit', and ungracefully
exits. I'll reopen this bug and ramp it down to normal, I suspect; it's not in
the warty timeframe.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Huh? A script like that works perfectly for me.

This bug can only be downgraded if you've transitioned t1-cyrillic to
s/pfaedit/fontforge/, and it doesn't look like you have

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

Warty bug, but only affects universe packages; downgrading per mdz.

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

(pointless for warty)

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Please check to what extent this still applies in Hoary.

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

fontforge (0.0.20041012-1ubuntu1) hoary; urgency=low

  * Provide pfaedit as a link to fontforge (closes: Ubuntu#1057).

 -- Daniel Stone <email address hidden> Mon, 13 Dec 2004 18:41:06 +0100