[bug #60930] Integrate Peter Schaffter's font installer script into groff

[Peter Schaffter]

Follow-up Comment #13, bug#60930 (group groff):


[comment #12 comment #12:]
> [comment #11 comment #11:]
> > There's no copyright affixed to the script, but I can add one and
> > slap on a GPL notice if that would help.  Let me know.  There'll
> > probably have to be a copyright assignment to the Free Software
> > Foundation as well.  I don't keep up with the legalities, I'm afraid.
> 
> Nor I; someone more conversant with licensing will have to address this.  I
only brought it up as part of a list of potential obstacles I could see to
getting it into the package.

I've put a copyright notice (2024--I can't remember when I wrote the damned
thing) and GPL licence on the script and uploaded it to
https://www.schaffter.ca/mom/bin/install-font.sh

Whoever wants to can grab it from there.  I believe Bertrand, as groff
maintainer, has to initiate the copyright assignment process.


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[bug #64155] specifying -fZD on command line generates warnings

[G. Branden Robinson]

Update of bug#64155 (group groff):

 Assigned to:gbranden => deri   

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Follow-up Comment #22:

[comment #21 comment #21:]
> Hi Branden,
> 
> I've worked it out. This is the problem, I had a corrupt copy of U-TR in my
build directory

Ok.  That explains the different file size as noted in comment #20.

> so this code:-

>   if test -f $f; then \
> /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $f /usr/share/groff/1.23.0/font/devpdf/$f; \
>   else \
> /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./font/devpdf/$f \
>   /usr/share/groff/1.23.0/font/devpdf/$f; \
>   fi; \


> Copied the corrupt file rather than the correct file in ./font/devpdf. What
is the purpose of this?

I don't know.  My name is on the 2 lines of the else branch per "git blame"
but closer inspection reveals that all I did was break the long lines.  Before
that was a commit by Bertrand.

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/commit/?id=b101574cae1b3019d4109d72b81e4c0a33bb5a86

and before that it was a "Makefile.sub" written by...

...you.  ;-)

> I am going to leave this open so that you can reply to the above

I'm going to plead noninvolvement on this one.  :P

> and whether you think this change will affect mom's use of .fam.

I don't _think_ so, given that mom has her own system of managing fonts, and
part of her contract with the user, as I understand it, is that user will not
go behind her back and start invoking *roff requests.

But I'll add Peter to the CC so he can opine.  I trust he'll know if I'm
confounding anything mom does.

> Also, I am a bit surprised that you must be reading U-TR (rather than just
checking for its existence) and then when it fails (silently) it compains
about the family, which is confusing, rather than reporting a font as
corrupt.

I agree.  I'm not happy with that, either.  See the end of comment #15.


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[bug #64155] specifying -fZD on command line generates warnings

[Deri James]

Update of bug#64155 (group groff):

 Assigned to:deri => gbranden   

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Follow-up Comment #21:

Hi Branden,

I've worked it out. This is the problem, I had a corrupt copy of U-TR in my
build directory so this code:-

  if test -f $f; then \
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $f /usr/share/groff/1.23.0/font/devpdf/$f; \
  else \
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./font/devpdf/$f \
  /usr/share/groff/1.23.0/font/devpdf/$f; \
  fi; \

Copied the corrupt file rather than the correct file in ./font/devpdf. What is
the purpose of this?

I am going to leave this open so that you can reply to the above and whether
you think this change will affect mom's use of .fam.

Also, I am a bit surprised that you must be reading U-TR (rather than just
checking for its existence) and then when it fails (silently) it compains
about the family, which is confusing, rather than reporting a font as
corrupt.




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