On Tue, 8 Jun 2021 15:17:15 +0200 Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> Hi Emilio,
>
> thanks for reaching back.
>
> On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 11:55:03AM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> > > Could you please consider including it in the Debian packaging?
> >
> > It's not packaged because the API was (maybe still is) unstable.
From the NEWS file:
>
> I decided to ask upstream first:
> https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/3012
>
> > I think we can package it, as hopefully the API is (somewhat)
stable now and
> > we don't need transitions without SONAME changes (and with conflicting,
> > renamed packages).
> >
> > MRs welcome.
>
> I'll open an MR against salsa/harfbuzz if I receive the go-ahead from
> upstream, thank you.
>
We'd also appreciate this for chromium packaging, as well. Currently
we're patching out chromium's hb-subset.h inclusion, and I'd love to be
able to get rid of that patch (possibly paired with a harfbuzz
bullseye-backport, which we can discuss at a later point).
