Dear Maintainer,

Has written in subject: why is harfbuzz package no more updated?

Current stable version is 11.4.4, and continously evoluting.

But on Debian repositories (and Ubuntu ones), it looks like frozen in 10.2.0
from a long time ago.

Even "experimental" distribution has not been refreshed since January.

A lot of useful new features are thus missing...

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
harfbuzz, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1112316@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) <aelmahmoudy@users.sourceforge.net> (supplier of updated harfbuzz package)

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Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2025 16:48:20 +0200
Source: harfbuzz
Built-For-Profiles: noudeb
Architecture: source
Version: 11.4.5-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) <aelmahmoudy@users.sourceforge.net>
Changed-By: أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) <aelmahmoudy@users.sourceforge.net>
Closes: 1112316
Changes:
 harfbuzz (11.4.5-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * New upstream release (Closes: #1112316)
   * d/control:
     + add dh-sequence-movetousr to build-deps
     + add help2man to build deps
     + update standards version to 4.7.2
   * d/libharfbuzz-bin.install: install utilties' man pages
   * d/libharfbuzz0b.symbols: update symbols
   * d/copyright: remove obsolete files
   * Add d/libharfbuzz-bin.lintian-overrides
   * Add d/libharfbuzz-gobject0.lintian-overrides
   * Add fix-man-whatis.patch to create man pages with useful whatis entry
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