Package: ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp Version: 2.10-6 Severity: normal The font package is missing a true (i.e. not the fallback boxed image with the unicode index) representation of BIG5 character which maps to unicode 0x5586.
Actually, this is not the only character, there are many others. This bug report is more of a statement on seemingly low effort being put into maintenance of Traditional Chinese support in Debian. And that isn't meant a criticism of the individuals involved. More like putting a mirror up to the Debian community as a whole. If, for example, the maintainer of the package wanted to do something about this bug report, to my understanding, there is little they can do. Isn't it normal procedure to go to prefer problems are fixed at the upstream? Well, it seems to me that Arphic Technology Co., Ltd. no longer care, perhaps even realise, that they involved themselves at some point in open source. I visited their web-site recently, and found the links to the free linux resource they listed, broken. When I emailed them about the broken links, a check back at the site revealed that they had removed them altogether. In other circumstances, when a package loses it's upstream, it becomes orphaned in Debian. What happens here? Is it satisfactory that, as far as I can tell, there is no possibility making improvements in this area of the Traditional Chinese support in Debian? Regards, Shaddy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
