[Bug 165612] New: Review Request: gfontview

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           Summary: Review Request: gfontview
           Product: Fedora Extras
           Version: devel
          Platform: All
               URL: http://gfontview.sourceforge.net
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: normal
         Component: Package Review
        AssignedTo: gdk at redhat.com
        ReportedBy: ksfiles at gmail.com
         QAContact: dkl at redhat.com
                CC: fedora-extras-list at redhat.com


Spec Name or Url: gfontview.spec
SRPM Name or Url: http://home.comcast.net/~ksfiles/files/gfontview-0.5.0-2.src.rpm
Description: gfontview is a Font Viewer for outline fonts (PostScript Type 1 and TrueType).

Folks,
  The gfontview upstream maintainer has been inactive for a while,
which is why, I'm guessing, gfontview has not been included in FC
extras. However, it is a very useful package. Despite its lack of
recent enhancements, it offers better font tables and font catalog
generation than kfontview and gnome-font-viewer. It works with both
Type1 and TTF files.

  Debian has been maintaining recent updates to the package, and I
have taken some of their work to merge a patch to the old
gfontview-0.5.0-1 that fixes GCC4 breakages. The resulting package is
stable and tested (by me). A working package or source for FC4 is not
easily downloadable from any third party, so it would be great to have
it included in FC4-extras. All code is GPL. I would be happy to
maintain this package, should further updates become necessary.

Thanks,
---
Kirby Files
ksfiles at gmail.com

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