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Bug 289176 - media-fonts/urwvn-fonts changed his home page
Summary: media-fonts/urwvn-fonts changed his home page
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Fonts Team
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Reported: 2009-10-15 08:25 UTC by Alexey Portnov
Modified: 2010-05-12 18:32 UTC (History)
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Description Alexey Portnov 2009-10-15 08:25:10 UTC 
media-fonts/urwvn-fonts changed his home page

now it's http://freshmeat.net/projects/urwvn/

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Wormo (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-10-21 06:49:58 UTC 
Thanks for the report, assigning to urwvn-fonts maintainers.
Comment 2 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-10-24 05:41:13 UTC 
Thank you for report. I've updated HOMEPAGE, but I'll keep this bug report open for now...


Actually I don't like idea to point on freeshmeat. But looks like we don't have better alternative atm. But I did some investigation of where do this font comes from. I found the following paper:

www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb24-1/thanh.pdf

It mentions that urwvn are just rough attempt to add Vietnamese glyphs to urw fonts. But then I found that this letters were merged into urw fonts. Reading urw fonts ChageLog:

2004-05-31  Valek Filippov  <frob ... df.ru>
    Added Vietnamese glyphs form urwvn.

Good, at this point I was thinking about deprecation and dropping urwvn from the tree. But... noticed that this fonts were dropped later:

2007-06-17  Valek Filippov  <frob ... df.ru>
    Vietnamese glyphs were removed

Well, I've asked Valek why this happened and in case fonts are broken we'll drop them from the tree. Fortunately freefont-ttf and dejavu support Vietnamese glyps: http://www.riverland.net.au/~clytie/viet/fonts.html 

So, let's wait until somebody makes situation a bit more clear...
Comment 3 tman 2010-05-08 08:20:15 UTC 
a work around to manuell download:

1. cd /usr/portage/distfiles/

2. wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/vntex/urwvn-ttf/urwvn-3.05-ttf.tar.bz2?use_mirror=kent

3. emerge -uDN world
Comment 4 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-05-08 10:12:23 UTC 
(In reply to comment #3)
> a work around to manuell download:

I really don't understand what's all about.

Today upstream contacted me and I've HOMEPAGE to point on correct location. This bug is FIXED.
Comment 5 Cedric Godin 2010-05-12 08:34:30 UTC 
Sorry but it's not fixed, I still have the problem (error 404 on the link)
Comment 6 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-05-12 18:32:24 UTC 
What link? I'm able to open http://vntex.sf.net without any problems. Anyone?