[ATTN} brotli Maintainer - python 3.12 Cygwin re-release desired

[Lemures Lemniscati]

On Wed, 7 Oct 2026 10:39:21 -0600, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps
> Hi folks,
> 
> We could do with a python 3.12 brotli re-release obsoleting python3{7,8,9}-brotli, pretty please with sugar and honey on it! ;^>
> 
> There are a bunch of Graphite2 font tests that currently fail without python-fonttools: I have installed fonttools[lxml,ufo,unicode,woff] with pip3.12 locally for testing and it now passes:
> 
> 	 $ cygport graphite2 check
> 	>>> Testing graphite2-1.3.15-1.x86_64
> 	Test project /usr/src/graphite2/graphite2-1.3.15-1.x86_64/build
> 	...
> 
> 	100% tests passed out of 91
> 
> 	Total Test time (real) =  17.33 sec
> 
> Python package fonttools base requires only core system support in python, but feature options lxml, ufo, unicode, woff require brotli, zopfli, and unicodedata2.
> 
> I can try to package zopfli, unicodedata2, then fonttools locally, but stuck without a brotli re-release.
> 
> Anyone advise how to python package with those lxml, ufo, unicode, woff feature options, which appear desirable?

Thank you for attention.

Just deployed python3*-brotli
* python312-brotli-1.2.0-2
* python38-brotli-1.2.0-2
* python39-brotli-1.2.0-2

Regards,

Lem