Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 2008-06-22 10:02:15 -0700: > If I must convert that to PCF it will add a dependency (on bdftopcf) > that doesn't exist today. Must I never install the BDF font, but > add a dependency for bdftopcf and only install a gzipped PCF > version?
Are you confusing Depends and Build-Depends? I'm not sure why installing PCF versions of fonts would require a Depends link; can the conversion not be done at package build time? A user who wants to use the PCF versions of the fonts wouldn't need bdftopcf, only someone who wanted to modify some glyphs and then rebuild the PCF files, right? I would tend to assume that Build-Depends: xfonts-utils is reasonable if BDF is used as an intermediary format. I see 93 packages (according to [apt-rdepends -r -f Build-Depends xfonts-utils]) that currently have that link, mostly also packages of fonts. > The Debian Policy Manual does not list a directory under > /usr/share/fonts/X11 for TrueType fonts. I plan to have the font be > in the "main/x11" Debian section, and so would like the TrueType > version of the font installed under the X11 hierarchy. FWIW, various ttf-* packages that are also in the x11 section use the /usr/share/fonts/truetype directory for this; see for example ttf-bitstream-vera or ttf-freefont. > 3) I'm using scripts originally written by Luis Gonzalez Miranda to > convert unifont.hex files into TrueType using FontForge. Therefore I do > intend to add a dependency on FontForge. There's no way around that > dependency to produce the TrueType version. Again, an installed package Depends or only a Build-Depends? > Is there any software still in common use that will not handle TrueType > fonts? Apparently Debian no longer has support for any software that > only supports BDF fonts instead of PCF fonts, so it wouldn't be > considered experimental to remove a BDF font. Depending on how large the files are, I wonder whether a split package (from the same source package) with one package containing TrueType fonts and the other containing PCF fonts would be reasonable. Just a thought. ---> Drake Wilson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]