Fontforge not working when installed with Gslapt

[mrstordal]

Hello!

I'm having trouble with Fontforge when installing with Gslapt. I installed from Slackbuilds, and then the program opened normally. After a few minutes Gslapt wanted to update, to the Salix version, and after the update (I had to give Gslapt a chance..) it'snot working.
This is the error message I get when I try to open via terminal:

st[~]$ fontforge
Copyright (c) 2000-2014 by George Williams. See AUTHORS for Contributors.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
with many parts BSD <http://fontforge.org/license.html>. Please read LICENSE.
Based on sources from 10:22 Local time zone must be set--see zic manual page 24-Aug-2016-ML-TtfDb-D.
Based on source from git with hash:
no xdefs_filename!
TESTING: getPixmapDir:/usr/share/fontforge/pixmaps
TESTING: getShareDir:/usr/share/fontforge
TESTING: GResourceProgramDir:/usr/bin
trying default theme:/usr/share/fontforge/pixmaps/resources
fontforge.hasUserInterface!
PyFF_onAppClosing() cnt:1
Segmentation fault

[laprjns]

Same problem here with the package from the salix repo.

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rich[~]$ fontforge 
Copyright (c) 2000-2014 by George Williams. See AUTHORS for Contributors.
 License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
 with many parts BSD <http://fontforge.org/license.html>. Please read LICENSE.
 Based on sources from 10:22 Local time zone must be set--see zic manual page 24-Aug-2016-ML-TtfDb-D.
 Based on source from git with hash: 
no xdefs_filename!
TESTING: getPixmapDir:/usr/share/fontforge/pixmaps
TESTING: getShareDir:/usr/share/fontforge
TESTING: GResourceProgramDir:/usr/bin
trying default theme:/usr/share/fontforge/pixmaps/resources
fontforge.hasUserInterface!
PyFF_onAppClosing() cnt:1
Segmentation fault

For now I suggest uninstalling the Salix package and rebuild the one from Slackbuild.org. To stop gslapt from wanting to upgrade to the salix package add fontforge to the excludes listing gslapt preferences.

[mrstordal]

Thanks for the reply, and for pointing out that I could exclude the package for now.

[gapan]

I just added a new fontforge package in the repos. So, you should be safe to let gslapt upgrade to it (as soon as mirrors sync that is).

[mrstordal]

Done!

Thank you so much! I really like the fact that packages installed from slackbuilds become "adopted" by slapt The same thing happened with Remmina, and it's been working perfectly.