DejaVu fonts for Fedora Core 6 feedback call

Rahul sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sat Jul 8 20:30:46 UTC 2006


Tom Brinkman wrote:
> On 08 2:34:S, Rahul wrote:
>> Tom Brinkman wrote:
>>  I gather from Rahul's
>>> comments that this would be a 'Won't Fix' issue for FC.
>> How did you gather that before even filing a bug report?
>>
>> Rahul
> 
>     'Gather' as in I inferred from the sum of your comments. 

I see no reason to infer that when I am asking you do the exact opposite 
  of that explicitly

I just
> need to do a bit more checking before filing a BZ.  Mostly into how 
> Mandriva long ago fixed the problem.
> 
>      Seems more expedient to me, as I suggested, for FC maintainers 
> to inquire how it was fixed, an possibly borrow it. Wouldn't be the 
> first time. Distros borrowing from each other that is. Isn't that 
> one of the main features of open source?

Yes and Fedora maintainers do that all the time. It is far from the 
efficient way to go patch hunting on multiple distributions however. 
Since you seem to be familiar with Mandriva and you care about this 
issue, this is a good chance to contribute.

Rahul




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