On 3/7/06, Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At this moment, ttf-freefont uses some code to strip fonts in the > udeb: > > chmod u+x ./convertfonts.sh > ./convertfonts.sh > # Strip the fonts for the udeb > chmod u+x ./stripfonts.sh > chmod u+x scripts/FreeSans-strip > chmod u+x scripts/ConvertFont > ./stripfonts.sh > > Scripts are at the end of this mail.... > > Eddy, Davide, are these scripts still useful or are they redundant > with font stripping that may be planned in the g-i build system? They > hardcode the kept (or excluded?) ranges which sounds not really > scalable to me.
Currently, yes, they are still needed. I haven't been too much in touch with the font problem in G-I lately, but we are getting close to do stripping on all fonts. Still the stripping should be done (IMHO) at udeb creation because the udebs' files should be exact ones which will be placed on the iso image (this way we are sure we are not inducing subtle problems). Probably making an debhelper script that can do font stripping so it is ran in the make rule of the udebs should be provided. As far as future plans are concerned, if we are going to do font stripping in the g-i build system, then it means we would have no use of the udebs, but we could use directly the font debs and we could generate stripped fonts and place them in the image without using font udebs. As to scalability, I agree; Davide, we should have a discussion related to this issue. How can we do font stripping based _exactly_ on used the ranges in the D-I translations and make this for all used fonts? It would be nice to have dh_stripfont infile outfile rangesfile so the make rule for the font udeb could call this to make the stripping the rangesfile file could be something like: font_package_name1:ttf_files_list:ranges_needed_for_font1 font_package_name2:ttf_files_list:ranges_needed_for_font2 font_package_name3:ttf_files_list:ranges_needed_for_font3 We could control these ranges and files and this would allow us to control which ranges we want from which fonts and to sync the ranges with the needed unicode points. Frans, Davide, Christian, what do you think? -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein
