Comment 12 for bug 1579536

No.

The current version isn't even written in the same language. And both are
basically prototyping, throwaway code, on the way to 1.0, so I'm certainly
not digging into something I deprecated years ago. I barely have time for
the project as it is.

I tried contacting the maintainers to work with them years ago. And as you
know others have filed bugs.

So as far I'm concerned, Ubuntu users can simply use the PPA, Debian users
can build from source or build a Debian package from git.

git clone https://github.com/FontManager/master.git
cd master/build-aux
make deb

That's about all the work I'm willing to do to support users of a
distribution which chooses to ship outdated/broken shit in the name of
stability.

On Aug 25, 2016 7:35 PM, "Gunnar Hjalmarsson" <email address hidden>
wrote:

> @Jerry: Is there any chance you can spot a specific commit in the source
> which would fix the problem in version 0.5.7 wrt dealing with Noto Sans?
> In that case we could patch it in Xenity. The archive admins are
> typically disinclined to accept a new version in a stable release
> update.
>
> (The problem might be related to the OTC format, which is used in fonts-
> noto-cjk to save space. But this is just a guess - I haven't tested if
> replacing the OTC files with OTF would make a difference.)
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1579536
>
> Title:
> "Querying installed files" process on start-up takes abnormally long
> (~20minutes)
>
> Status in font-manager package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> When starting font-manager it queries the installed font files. Until
> 16.04 this process has been fairly fast. Since 16.04 it takes up to 20
> minutes, and looks like the app died: loading bar gets stuck and
> switching the window back from the background shows an empty window.
>
> 2 ways to reproduce:
>
> a)
> - launch font-manager
> expected result: font-manager loads quickly and is ready for operation
> result: font-manager faints a crash but is in fact alright after 20
> minutes querying the installed font files
>
> b)
> - once launched, install new fonts
> - press "reload now" when prompted
> expected result: font-manager loads quickly and is ready for operation
> result: font-manager faints a crash but is in fact alright after 20
> minutes querying the installed font files
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
> Package: font-manager 0.5.7-4
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-22.39-lowlatency 4.4.8
> Uname: Linux 4.4.0-22-lowlatency x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
> Architecture: amd64
> CurrentDesktop: XFCE
> Date: Sun May 8 17:59:17 2016
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-21 (17 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Studio 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release
> amd64 (20160420.1)
> SourcePackage: font-manager
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
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