Hi Guillem, On Sun, 6 Oct 2019 20:08:20 +0200, Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sat, 2019-10-05 at 21:44:25 +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote: > > The associated footnote explains that > > > > > This is because the X server may retrieve fonts from the local file > > > system or over the network from an X font server; the Debian package > > > system is empowered to deal only with the local file system. > > > > While this is still technically true, > > Actually, I don't think this is true nowadays. Font server support was > disabled in libxfont 1:1.4.7-1 (in 2014-01-07).
Wow, I had forgotten that! So the current language is even less relevant. > > it seems rather irrelevant > > nowadays: most GUI programs directly render fonts obtained locally, > > and even for “traditional” X fonts, the vast majority of systems will > > obtain the fonts locally. Debian hasn’t had xfs for 5.5 years > > (<https://bugs.debian.org/733958>); there is another font server > > available, xfstt, but that only handles TrueType fonts. > > I've kept xfstt in the archive mostly for two reasons: > > - sentimental; it's the first package I adopted in Debian (at the > same time of taking over as upstream :). I know the feeling ;-). [...] Thanks for the info, Stephen
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