On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 19:34 -0800, Keith Packard wrote: > I'd love to help with this transition. It seems like I should wait until > most (all?) other users have uploaded new packages so that I don't break > some existing defoma user.
I think you can drop defoma support from fontconfig immediately. I think the consequences will be that Xorg will not be able to find any TrueType fonts. I don't really care about that since probably very few packages use X server-side fonts any more, things have moved to font client-side rendering. For the few packages that do use server-side fonts, the xfonts-* packages provide fonts in the right directories. General status of the transition is here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=p...@debian.org;tag=defoma-removal Most packages shipping defoma hint files have transitioned away from defoma and the remaining ones have patches. If you could deprecate the FontPath stuff in Xorg upstream and add fontconfig support to Xorg upstream for the next release, that would be most excellent. The remaining issues are transitioning vf3lib and libwmf to fontconfig. There is a patch for vf3lib. libwmf is unmaintained upstream and poorly maintained in Debian, no patch for it yet. > Also, is there some additional functionality that the fontconfig package > needs to support now that defoma is going away? There was some talk about that in relation to Ghostscript and CJK stuff: http://wiki.debian.org/gs-undefoma It seems there needs to be a way for gs to fetch aliases from fontconfig. I am not very knowledgeable about CJK stuff, you would have to contact Kenshi Muto and others about that. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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