Paul Wise wrote: > I'm the current debian maintainer for the fonttools package. When I > adopted it, it had a bug[1] about a traceback in certain timezones. > The bug came with a patch[2], so I applied the patch. Later down the > track other people had the same problem with the patch applied. > > I ran a script[3] to check every timezone I have on my system. > Without the patch I get tracebacks with the timezones mentioned in > the bad-no-patch.txt attachment. With the patch, I get tracebacks > with the timezones mentioned in the bad-patch.txt attachment. I also > attached the output of running ttx with and without the patch. You > can also see the values (time.gmtime(safe_epoch)[:6] first and > safe_epoch_t[:6] second) just before the assertion errors. > > As to the fix for this, I don't know enough about fonts or fonttools, > but shouldn't ttx be only dealing with GMT/UTC time? Surely fonts > don't embed timezones in them? > > 1. http://bugs.debian.org/328098 > 2. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi/fonttools-tz.diff?bug= 328098;msg=5;att=1 > 3. for TZ in `find /usr/share/zoneinfo/ | sed > s_^/usr/share/zoneinfo/__g | grep -v ^posix/ | grep -v ^right/`; > do echo $TZ ; TZ="$TZ" ttx marlett.ttf ; done &> output ; grep > -B 5 Traceback output | grep -v -- -- | grep -v Dumping | grep > -v Traceback > > Here, marlett.ttf is the smallest ttf I could find on my system.
Are you working with an up to date cvs version of fonttools? There was a patch checked in fairly recently for this. If that still doesn't work correctly, I'm all ears for suggestions what to do. Just -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
