Using wrong repo and homepage, rather out of date.

[Bungeman]

FontForge is now being developed on github, so the homepage for the package should be updated to http://fontforge.github.io/ and the new repo is at https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/ . From the name of the files, the version in Wily is patched code from 2012, which is rather old. Simply updating to the newer code may fix a number of other bugs reported against the FontForge package as well, as there have been numerous bug fixes in the interim.

[Bungeman (bungeman)]

Note that releases can be found at https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/releases and there is a PPA at https://launchpad.net/~fontforge/+archive/ubuntu/fontforge as well.

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thanks for reporting this issue.

I found a similar bug report in Debian, so I have attached a bug watch. Looks like there was some work towards packaging a newer version, though nothing recently. :/

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Pander (pander)]

Please set importante to High as it was set on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fontforge/+bug/1595231