FIGlet version 2.2.5 is available here: ftp://ftp.figlet.org/pub/figlet/program/unix/figlet-2.2.5.tar.gz Changes in FIGlet 2.2.5 ----------------------- FIGlet 2.2.5 is a revision of FIGlet 2.2.4 containing updated andproperly licensed ISO8859 map files. The full list of changes is: o Add regression tests for uskata and jis0201 control files o Properly escape minus signs in figlist(6) man page (Jonathan McCrohan) o Fix chkfont coredump on invalid input (Kenneth Davies and Jonathan McCrohan) o Update ISO8859 map files to fix licensing issue raised in Debian bugs 673096 and 674844 o Re-add missing figmagic and getopt.c files which were left out of releases 2.2.3 and 2.2.4 o Fix output of test script in MacOS X These changes were made by Claudio Matsuoka <cmatsuoka@gmail.com> 31 May 2012 Changes in FIGlet 2.2.4 ----------------------- FIGlet 2.2.4 is a revision of FIGlet 2.2.3 featuring bugfixes and support to tlf2 fonts. The full list of changes is: o Add support to Sam Hocevar's TOIlet TLF fonts containing UTF-8 encoded Unicode characters. o Add infocode 5 to list supported font formats o Fix rendering error caused by the previous attempt to fix invalid memory accesses when smushing at start of line o New environment variable FIGLET_FONTDIR can be used to specify the path to search for fonts o Add regression tests These changes were made by Claudio Matsuoka <cmatsuoka@gmail.com> 26 January 2011 Changes in FIGlet 2.2.3 ----------------------- FIGlet 2.2.3 is a revision of FIGlet 2.2.2 featuring minor bugfixes and important licensing changes in the zipio files. The full list of changes is: o License changed from "Academic Free License" to "New BSD License" (3-clause) as agreed by FIGlet authors o New JIS X 0201 control file (Micah Cowan) o Fix behavior of JIS0201 SHIFT-OUT and SHIFT-IN that were previouly inverted (Micah Cowan) o Fix memory violation when smushing at line start o Fix handling of memory allocation errors o Relicense Ed Hamrick zipio under the MIT license. This should eliminate any concerns about redistribution of FIGlet as libre software. o Update Makefile to meet modern standards in variable naming, using BINDIR as the pathname for binary files and reservind DESTDIR as the extra prefix commonly used in package building. o Add a Turbo C makefile, just because I had the compiler. (this also tests portability to old compilers and foreign platforms) o Add Jonathon Abbott's man pages for figlist, showfigfonts and chkfont originally contributed to the Debian Project These changes were made by Claudio Matsuoka <cmatsuoka@gmail.com> 12 January 2011
Created attachment 376850 [details] figlet-2.2.5.ebuild I'm shocked that this core package is left in such a sorrow state! (kidding) Please find attached a radically slimmed down (no external patches necessary any more) ebuild for version 2.2.5. It is especially completely prefix aware (i.e. finds correct font directory...). The most notable change is that I haven't included (the mirrored) extra font files mirror://gentoo/contributed-${PN}-221.tar.gz mirror://gentoo/ms-dos-${PN}-221.tar.gz" due to completely unclear licensing conditions. In fact, I'm not sure whether we're actually allowed to mirror them at all. I therefore propose to add a new ebuild figlet-extra-fonts that has RESTRICT="mirror" and just fetches ftp://ftp.figlet.org/pub/figlet/fonts/contributed.tar.xz ftp://ftp.figlet.org/pub/figlet/fonts/ms-dos.tar.xz This will make a date based version for figlet-extra-font necessary and 'regular' (once, twice a year) updates as upstream tends to update these archives without any versioning.
The ebuild from comment #1 works for me.
modified ebuild in portage. thanks for the bug report and ebuild submission.
