From 587b0fbf115dea2302e86c81aacbf245621ea32d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cosimo Lupo <clupo@google.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2023 17:26:08 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] [varLib] don't overwrite existing feaLib-built 'STAT' table

Fixes https://github.com/googlefonts/fontmake/issues/985 and https://github.com/googlefonts/ufo2ft/issues/723
---
 Lib/fontTools/varLib/__init__.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/fontTools/varLib/__init__.py b/Lib/fontTools/varLib/__init__.py
index 77b4f4112..8aa15c791 100644
--- a/Lib/fontTools/varLib/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/fontTools/varLib/__init__.py
@@ -995,11 +995,11 @@ def build_many(
             vf = build(
                 vfDoc,
                 master_finder,
-                exclude=list(exclude) + ["STAT"],
+                exclude=exclude,
                 optimize=optimize,
                 colr_layer_reuse=colr_layer_reuse,
             )[0]
-            if "STAT" not in exclude:
+            if "STAT" not in vf and "STAT" not in exclude:
                 buildVFStatTable(vf, designspace, name)
             res[name] = vf
     return res