From: paravoid@debian.org   
      
   Control: block 1062808 by -1   
      
   On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 08:29:49PM -0500, Boyuan Yang wrote:   
   > * Package name    : uharfbuzz   
      
   Through no fault of yours and as a result of my bad judgement (for not   
   filing an ITP first) and extremely bad luck (for the wild coincidence),   
   I worked on packaging uharfbuzz over the weekend, and placed the   
   finishing strokes yesterday... I was about to send the ITP when I saw   
   yours. Oh well!   
      
   I pushed my work now to https://salsa.debian.org/paravoid/uharfbuzz and   
   I'm comparing it to yours; a few notes:   
      
   1) Did you generate the tarball by hand to remove the vendored harfbuzz   
   source? I repacked the tarball through have "Files-Excluded: harfbuzz".   
   I picked the tarball up from PyPI, not GitHub, but I see the GitHub one   
   also includes it.   
      
   2) I also stripped the tarball from the pregenerated Cython code   
   (src/uharfbuzz/_harfbuzz.cpp, src/uharfbuzz/_harfbuzz_test.cpp) through   
   Files-Excluded, as well as debian/clean.   
      
   3) On the matter of test data - I checked the source of some of these   
   (like Adobe Blank), and realized that a) the binaries are not the   
   preferred source of modification - some use afdko etc. b) they are   
   modified (likely using (u)harfbuzz itself) to remove glyphs etc. So I   
   did the following:   
      a) Added tests/data to Files-Excluded;   
      b) Used the fonts that exist in Debian (STIX and Open Sans) as B-D   
      c) Wrote a script to generate the subsets that uharfbuzz expects,   
         which uses fonttools. See debian/generate_test_data.py.   
      d) Patched the upstream source to skip tests for not-found fonts.   
   Longer-term, I was also thinking of packaging the remaining fonts.   
      
   4) I think you need python3-all and python3-all-dev, not   
   python3/python3-dev.   
      
   5) I think my extended description is a bit nicer :) I did not know the   
   source extended description trick though! TIL.   
      
   Let me know what you think of the above, and I can commit them to the   
   repository. (I used to maintain some fonts, so I'll check whether I have   
   access to the DFTF salsa.)   
      
   Regards,   
   Faidon   
      
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