On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Raphael Geissert > <atomo64+deb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> If there are 148 packages there should be at least what, 20 maintainers? (I >> would hope there are far more) why don't they, or the fonts team, adopt >> defoma? or replace it with something else? 16 months of preparation of >> squeeze should be more than enough time to do any of both options. > > I hope to patch up the 6 or so packages that actually need defoma to > switch to fontconfig so we can remove defoma for good. As a first > start I've filed a few bugs upstream (except for > xorg/x-ttcidfont-conf) and will be working on porting these to > fontconfig after filing bugs on the Debian side. I think the rest of > the packages are just fonts and the defoma deps can easily be removed. > After that dh_installdefoma can be removed from debhelper and the > defoma bits can be removed from fontconfig. > > . > . > . >
Paul, Do you have enough familiarity with defoma to put together a guide for font maintainers to transition from defoma to whatever the alternative will be? Should we just use fontconfig for TrueType/OpenType fonts? I use defoma for installing the unifont packages. I've seen requests to adopt defoma, but know after looking at the source code that I don't have the time to properly maintain a package of that size. > > -- > bye, > pabs > > http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise > Paul Hardy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
