On Mon, Oct 26, 2026 at 4:09 AM Otto Kekäläinen <[email protected]> wrote: > What is the status with Harbuzz packaging now? Could the maintainer > comment what their plans are, and if they need help? > > Looking at https://salsa.debian.org/freedesktop-team/harfbuzz, commits > ended six months ago, there are no new open MRs, CI is failing, and > the upload to NEW was abandoned.
It got stuck at the time because it added new binary packages which needed sponsorship to go through NEW. At least at the time, I don't think the NEW packages were needed. On Mon, Oct 26, 2026 at 7:10 AM Rene Engelhard <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe this package (which is needed by gnome, texlive, libreoffice etc.. > should be better placed > at the Fonts Task Force? > > IMHO it's too low-level and important to have this on one shoulder. > > Of course then someone still has to do the work, though. Ahmed can be > Uploaders: there of course. > > But I personally don't really have the time do do another (big) (low-level) > package, except maybe occasional contributions in the Fonts Task Force... It's partially team maintained since the Salsa repo is at https://salsa.debian.org/freedesktop-team/harfbuzz Personally, I like the idea of moving it to the Fonts team. I never got around to adding myself to Uploaders for this package. Thank you, Jeremy Bícha
