Hi Fabian! On Fr, 26 Aug 2022, fab...@greffrath.com wrote:
> Am 25.08.2022 19:23, schrieb Roland Rosenfeld: > > I was curious, whether this is possible and so I just tried to patch > > gsfonts-x11 to use fonts-urw-base35 instead of gsfonts and it worked > > for me. I kept all font names in fonts.scale and fonts.alias and only > > changed the referenced file names. > > how cool is this? This is about exactly what I wanted to achieve today, so > thank you very much! ;) > > My vision was to integrate the two files and the symlink farm that's > gsfonts-x11 into src:fonts-urw-base35 and install them into the > regular package, leaving gsfonts-x11 as a transitional dummy > package. Just go for it. I never liked to have gsfonts-x11 as a separate package, but since it was the only chance to use the fonts in old X11 applications, I built this package in 1999 that way to make the fonts usable in xfig. > It's already team-maintained in pkg-fonts, so I'd like to > invite you to move efforts there. Or would you rather like to keep > gsfonts-x11 as a separate package? To say the truth, I still not fully understand how fonts work nowadays (my knowledge is stuck in 1999), so I'm not sure whether the fonts.scale/fonts.alias stuff in gsfonts-x11 is nowadays okay or an ugly workaround. If it's okay, integration into the fonts-urw-base35 binary package it perfect. If it's an ugly hack, a separate package may be good way to work around fading out the hack. You may have better font using knowledge than me to decide this... Anyway, you're free to take over all content of gsfonts-x11 into src:fonts-urw-base35 (not that much content, only fonts.scale, fonts.alias and a little voodoo in debian/rules to generate symlinks (X11 doesn't seem to like .t1 suffix, so I symlinked to .pfb) and to make fonts available as iso8859-2 and iso8859-15 in addition to iso8859-1 (also an ugly hack but nobody complained, so it seems to work). Not to forget some small autopkgtests, checking that all fonts in fonts.scale/fonts.alias really exist and do not point into nirvana. I just pushed a fonts-urw-base35 branch (including my yesterdays patch) of gsfonts-x11 to salsa, to make it easier for you to get everything you need: git push --set-upstream origin fonts-urw-base35 Greetings Roland
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