252876 – urw-fonts out of date and buggy

Bug 252876 - urw-fonts out of date and buggy

Summary: urw-fonts out of date and buggy

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Fonts Team

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Reported:	2008-12-28 23:20 UTC by James Cloos
Modified:	2009-01-11 13:54 UTC (History)
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Description James Cloos 2008-12-28 23:20:51 UTC

We have urw-fonts-2.3.6.ebuild which uses a redhat srpm (urw-fonts-2.3-6.1.1.src.rpm).  Fedora currently has:

ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/source/SRPMS/urw-fonts-2.4-6.fc10.src.rpm

Version 2.4 has various bug fixes, notably (mostly) fixing the Nimbus Mono fonts.

(In 2.3 many of the glyphs have incorrect width and the afm files claim widths completely out of touch with those in the pfb files.)

Even with 2.4 one of the glyphs in the mono bold bolique is wrong, so a newer version of the srpm should be out in the next few days.

Comment 1 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester

2008-12-29 03:11:06 UTC

Thanks for the report, assigning to maintainers.

Comment 2 James Cloos 2008-12-29 15:10:43 UTC

I forgot to mention:  the “upstream” bug for the bad width of the \dcaron
glyph in Nimbus Mono Bold Oblique is:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=478332

That should result in a bump to the srpm.

Comment 3 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-01-11 13:54:51 UTC

Thank you for report James. Updated fonts added to the tree.