On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 04:49:02PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Daniel Stone wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 06:44:20PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > 6) Finally, in addition to everything else that's moving out of > > > /usr/X11R6/, > > > packages providing fonts for X should now install to /usr/share/fonts/X11 > > > instead of to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts. The heirarchy is the same as > > > before, as are the commands to manage fonts; to ensure your font package's > > > compatibility with the installed Xorg system, you should only need to bump > > > your dependency on xutils to xutils (>> 1:7.0.0). The plan is that > > > xorg.conf will support both the old and new paths by default for this > > > transition. > > > > If you're using debhelper's dh_installxfonts to install fonts for you, > > rather than doing it by hand, you need to explicitly Build-Depends on > > debhelper (>= 5.0.29), in addition to fixing any references to > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts, or /usr/lib/X11/fonts, in your package. > > Also, if your package uses alias files in /etc/X11/fonts/, it needs to > move to /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/, and will need debhelper 5.0.31. 5.0.31 > also passes --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands, which seems to be > needed to get it to look in the new fonts locations.
There's a bug report open against xfonts-utils to use --x11r7-layout as default. I'm going to do just that in the next release, so hopefully this won't be necessary in the long-run. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
