On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 02:53:17AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > So, up till now fonts in Debian were supposed to be installed via > Defoma. Defoma has worked fairly well, but it's Debian-specific, and > very complex. > > Now however we have fontconfig, which is a more generic way for > applications to find and use fonts. Besides core components like GNOME, > KDE, and Mozilla, other applications like magicpoint are now using it as > well. I think we should encourage this. > > Defoma is not really supported by its maintainer anymore (see #180188), > and I think that we should be moving away from using Defoma, and > encouraging upstreams to support fontconfig. They are not entirely > duplicates really; Defoma as I understand it is just kind of a trigger > mechanism, and can help non-fontconfig applications to support a variety > of fonts. > > Now, to the issue at hand: after installing a font package, fc-cache > must be rerun. Now, we could continue to use Defoma, and I could have > fontconfig install some sort of Defoma trigger to make Defoma rerun > fc-cache. > But given the above, I would prefer for font packages to just invoke > fc-cache directly in their postinst, and also for them to Depend on > fontconfig. > > This should solve #175797. > > The exact code that packages should use might look something like this: > > printf "Regenerating fonts cache..." > HOME=/root fc-cache -f -v 1>/var/log/fontconfig.log 2>&1 || (printf "failed; > see /var/log/fontconfig.log for more information\n"; exit 1) > printf "done.\n" > > Maybe I could put this into a little shell script in the Debian > fontconfig package.
Or add a debhelper doing this ? If i understand debhelper well, it could even be a little dh_fontconfig module (or whatever it is called) which could go into the fontconfi package ? Friendly, Sven Luther
