m040601 [1] filed a deletion request for ft2tf [2]:

This PKGBUILD, "ft2tf" is obsolete and should be completely removed
from the AUR.

It's presence in the AUR is only confusing users.


It used to be, like 10 years ago, a companion tool for fbpad.

It has stopped being so a long time.
It has been replaced by another tool, fbpad_mkfn

As the author states in his homepage, http://litcave.rudi.ir/,

```
... The fbpad_mkfn program (or its predecessor ft2tf) can generate
fbpad font files ...

```


```
... Jan 2016: I have uploaded fbpad_mkfn, a replacement for ft2tf ...
```


It is not even listed anymore in the authors' git repos, Either,
https://github.com/aligrudi/ or its original mirror,
https://repo.or.cz/projlist.cgi?name=e4985eabe11cacf799a880921d7ab569



Pay also attention to this.

If you check, https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/fbpad-git, you will
find that,

```
Make Deps       : git  ft2tf  ttf-dejavu
```

So it seems it is still needed right ? Wrong !

That "ft2tf" make dependency there is wrong.
It is only there, because the "fbpad-git" AUR PKGBUILD, itself, is
currently
abandoned, and has not been maintained.

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/m040601/
[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/ft2tf/

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