Re: Removal of fc-cache calls in postinsts

2009-06-25 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 23:08:26 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Hi, > > since version 2.6.0-4, fontconfig includes a trigger that will re-run > fc-cache whenever needed. > > Therefore, all font packages that currently do this in the postinst are > strongly advised to remove these calls. The pe

Re: Removal of fc-cache calls in postinsts

2009-06-25 Thread Hideki Yamane
Hi, On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:08:26 +0200 Josselin Mouette wrote: > I’ve requested a new lintian check, and here is the list of affected > packages. > > Hideki Yamane (Debian-JP) >ttf-dejima-mincho (U) >ttf-kanjistrokeorders (U) >ttf-kiloji (U) >ttf-kochi (U) >ttf-konatu (U) >

Re: Removal of fc-cache calls in postinsts

2009-06-17 Thread jidanni
Or at least nice(1) those calls. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=533019 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Removal of fc-cache calls in postinsts

2009-06-15 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Josselin Mouette (j...@debian.org): > The next paragraph said: > I’ve requested a new lintian check, and here is the list of > affected packages. /me slaps self. Sorry, Joss, for overreading your mail. I actually went back on it quickly after you forwarded it to pkg-fonts

Re: Removal of fc-cache calls in postinsts

2009-06-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 15 juin 2009 à 17:59 +0200, Christian Perrier a écrit : > Quoting Josselin Mouette (j...@debian.org): > > Hi, > > > > since version 2.6.0-4, fontconfig includes a trigger that will re-run > > fc-cache whenever needed. > > > > Therefore, all font packages that currently do this in the pos

Re: Removal of fc-cache calls in postinsts

2009-06-15 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Josselin Mouette (j...@debian.org): > Hi, > > since version 2.6.0-4, fontconfig includes a trigger that will re-run > fc-cache whenever needed. > > Therefore, all font packages that currently do this in the postinst are > strongly advised to remove these calls. The performance gains durin

Re: Removal of fc-cache calls in postinsts

2009-06-13 Thread Paul Wise
2009/6/14 Josselin Mouette : > Re-running fc-cache used to be done by defoma, but people kept adding > fc-cache calls manually.  They turned out to have been right, since > defoma support was ripped out of fontconfig a while ago. It was? I still see this file in the fontconfig package (2.6.0-3):

Re: Removal of fc-cache calls in postinsts

2009-06-13 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 13 juin 2009 à 14:14 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > Strangely, most of the font packages on my system appear to have > autogenerated postinst snippets for defoma from dh_installdefoma, but > there's no equivalent for fc-cache which has been added everywhere by hand. > Should there be a

Re: Removal of fc-cache calls in postinsts

2009-06-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 11:08:26PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > since version 2.6.0-4, fontconfig includes a trigger that will re-run > fc-cache whenever needed. > Therefore, all font packages that currently do this in the postinst are > strongly advised to remove these calls. The performance

Removal of fc-cache calls in postinsts

2009-06-13 Thread Josselin Mouette
Hi, since version 2.6.0-4, fontconfig includes a trigger that will re-run fc-cache whenever needed. Therefore, all font packages that currently do this in the postinst are strongly advised to remove these calls. The performance gains during upgrades should be huge. I’ve requested a new lintian c